Jake Tapper Quotes
I think that I'm doing my job, and it's nice to be recognized, but I also know that a lot of the people who are happy with me now are not going to be happy with me in four to eight years and that I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.
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I think that I'm doing my job, and it's nice to be recognized, but I also know that a lot of the people who are happy with me now are not going to be happy with me in four to eight years and that I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing.
