Diogenes Quotes
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I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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I need instant gratification.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
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I would never play a character that wasn't true. It's not a moral thing; it's just that it's more convincing if it's a little bit like me.
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I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.
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Most singers have their idols. I remember Elvis Presley when I was a kid. When I was about sixteen, I always said I wanted to do 'Love Me Tender.'
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It has had a tremendous impact on my life, more than on the life of most Prize winners, because I was in an unusual situation. I was unemployed at the time. I was in good health, but I had reached the age of 66 and beginning to get social security, but I didn't have much of that. I had many years of unemployment before me.
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Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.
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Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
