Denis McDonough Quotes
I taught in Belize for a year, and before I left, my parents were birddogging me to get health care coverage. So what I did was, I reenrolled in college, and then got coverage through my college.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
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I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.
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Hockey's my favorite sport.
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My parents are relieved as much as anything that I'm getting some work.
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I started out doing triathlons because they terrified me! I'm a good swimmer, I learned to ride a bike in college, and I hate running. It seemed like something I could never do, so I decided, 'I'm gonna do it.'
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I taught in Belize for a year, and before I left, my parents were birddogging me to get health care coverage. So what I did was, I reenrolled in college, and then got coverage through my college.
