Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (Desi Arnaz) Quotes
American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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My left brain has gradually 'eaten' the right-brain capabilities away.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'
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For some peculiar reason, two films about Oscar Wilde were started at the same time, back in 1959 or 1960. I played Wilde in one, and Robert Morley was in the other. As it turned out, at that particular moment there was no market for any Oscar Wilde movie at all.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
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Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in the face of public policy that have written too many young people off.
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American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
