Phil Ramone Quotes
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From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
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The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.
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I have fabulous children.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
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Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.
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I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.
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Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.
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Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
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A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.
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On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.
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I go to the Golden Globes, the Grammys, all the awards shows. Just stuff you would never get to do as a regular person were things that were really exciting for me.
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The power given by the Constitution to the Executive to interpose his veto is a high conservative power; but in my opinion it should never be exercised except in cases of clear violation of the Constitution, or manifest haste and want of due consideration by Congress.
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I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.
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Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.
