Carl Rakosi Quotes
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way.
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I have to be smarter than my opponents. I have to figure out their styles in the ring. I have to be three or four steps ahead of them. So my mind has to be sharp.
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I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
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A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
