James Van Der Beek Quotes
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I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.
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I was a tomboy.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You've got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like 'Tristram Shandy' or 'Don Quixote'.
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As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.
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We're quite pleased with most of the areas that the kids tested in. We made our goals that we set at the beginning of (last) year. Each teacher has to set a goal for each one of their students for improvement, and most of them were satisfied with how they did.
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A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
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If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
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Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.
