Charlie Dent Quotes
There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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I've had watermelon hair where I had pink with green tips. From the age of 13 to about 19 or 20, I never had my real hair color.
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.
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I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.
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The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
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I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
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The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.
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Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.
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“Coffee is coffee to me, I don't mind what country it comes from, who picks it or under what conditions, and I really don't give a damn who serves it or what they're getting paid as long as they get it right.”
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There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare.
