Emmanuel Jal Quotes
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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Love is the one wild card.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
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Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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When I started singing, I was covering Lauryn Hill, Brandy, and all the girl groups of the '90s. It's just what I would listen to and what I was singing when anybody asked me to sing for them.
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on the Gulf War I was in the unenviable position of being for the war, but against the troops.
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The wealthiest Sudanese don't know what war is. Their children are safe in school.
