Jane Elliot Quotes
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.
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I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.
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Soon after the financial crisis of 2008, I was at a meeting in Washington with a group of U.S. senators. They had invited me to provide a point of view on new regulation; regulation aimed at ensuring we never have to go through the events of 2008 ever again.
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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I love playing smart and tough and having funny lines.
