Boomer Esiason Quotes
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
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Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.
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For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
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I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity.
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A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
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As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.
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Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
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I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.
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When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time.
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Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, 'What is going to happen to me?'
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PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die-ever-and basically think chickens should, in time, gain the right to vote. I don't want animals stressed or crowded or treated cruelly or inhumanely because that makes them probably less delicious.
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Better build schoolrooms for 'the boy'Than cells and gibbets for 'the man.'
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Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
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Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.
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I want to lower taxes for the middle class.
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I always liken life to a book where you turn the pages one at a time.
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So doth the greater glory dim the less: A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by.
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Genetically my legs are supposed to be huge. I can't really think about it, or I'll go crazy.
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Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap.
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I was dreaming of Craig Carton.
