Dee Dee Myers Quotes
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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.
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The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.
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We always trend set.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.
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There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
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There's been times where I sold the place out, and I walked in and the guy's like, 'Uh, ID?' 'No, you can't ID me, man. I just sold this place out.' People are just doing their jobs, but I think if you're working the door at a venue where there's a headliner, you should at least be like, 'OK, this is the dude.'
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I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.
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The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.
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The ideal is to build a culture of healthy discussion, where everyone's ideas are valued. At KIND, we want everyone to be comfortable challenging my or anyone else's ideas without ever feeling or making someone else feel that the questioning is a personal attack.
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President Barack Obama would do well to take a page or two from Clinton's playbook.
