Daniel Webster Quotes
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.
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Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.
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There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.
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All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone - my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music - ensemble music, not soloism - we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.
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Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
