Keith Olbermann Quotes
'You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do (the) same for others'
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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I don't like to look typical.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.
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I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.
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Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.
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History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.
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To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
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'You know the Art Rule: Do something that entertains/interests YOU, if you're lucky it'll do (the) same for others'
