Donna Lynne Champlin Quotes
About six months after I moved to New York City, I was literally down to my last twenty dollars when a friend of mine from college got me a job at an Upper East side gym. I ran the cafe, and I was the janitor. It was an unfortunate combination of duties, to say the least.
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
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In 1983, my second year of law school, I became the only white player in the Ogden Park Basketball League at 65th and Racine. My teammates joked that I integrated the league, which I guess is true. They weren't so much focused on integration as on winning, and they knew you can't teach height. 'He can't jump, but he sure is tall.'
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Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.
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Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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About six months after I moved to New York City, I was literally down to my last twenty dollars when a friend of mine from college got me a job at an Upper East side gym. I ran the cafe, and I was the janitor. It was an unfortunate combination of duties, to say the least.
