Dorothy Denning Quotes
With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.
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I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.
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I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
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When I was about 7, I fancied Anna Chlumsky; the girl from 'My Girl.'
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I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.
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Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.
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I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.
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No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.
