James Sinegal Quotes
One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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I've watched 'Clueless' as many times as humanly possible. Like, I would run home from school to watch it. Like, I can quote it backwards.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead. And I've always felt like that's what I want to do. I've felt that since the day I was able to start playing music for a living. I don't see the point of thinking about retiring because it's not work to begin with.
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Like, did you know that LGBT kids are 8.4 times more likely than straight kids to attempt suicide? And 50 percent of LGBT kids are rejected by their parents? That between 20 and 40 percent of homeless teens say they’re gay, lesbian, or transgender, and that up to 50 percent of the guy teens have sold their bodies to support themselves?
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.
