Branch Rickey Quotes
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.
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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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I grew up in L.A., so I'm a huge Lakers fan and Kobe fan.
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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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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
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It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel that I need to push myself harder to pay back for all the good fortune that I have received.
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There's nothing harder than defining oneself.
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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!
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Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
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I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!
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The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.
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Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn't seem like something I was talented enough to do full time. So I kind of buried that dream.
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All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.
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How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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I'd never hurt another person.
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Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.
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But, really, I don't plumb-bob a lot because I don't think it reads enough break into the putt.
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All I had was natural ability.
