Oliver Herford Quotes
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
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It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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Africa is the future.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
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Today, education does not give you the wisdom and the understanding; it only indoctrinates you to believe something. So the mind knows very less but accepts so many things; it may be science, it may be technology, it may be anything.
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The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.
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Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
