Keith Ellison Quotes
Serving my neighbors in Congress and fighting for them has been the best job I've ever had.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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I'm not a top-five player yet. Maybe I'm close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist.
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After my film 'The Tale of Two Sisters,' I received a lot of offers from Hollywood to direct, but because 'A Tale of Two Sisters' was a horror film, I received a lot of horror films. But I wasn't interested in working in the same genre, and the scripts I received for films in different genres were for projects that were near completion.
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My job is to take the pictures, communicate a message, to bring those images to the greater public through whatever publication I'm working for. My job is really to be a messenger, and that's what I've been doing.
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The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.
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Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out what it is.
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Serving my neighbors in Congress and fighting for them has been the best job I've ever had.
