Penelope Spheeris Quotes
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.
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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
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To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.
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CloudShield did not see itself as a cloak-and-dagger company. It made its name for high-end hardware that could peer deeply into Internet traffic and pull out and analyze 'packets' of data as they flew by.
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For me, I always try to make it to the final.
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I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
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The statement that I made and that I think I will continue to make is that racism and bigotry isn't just relegated to the Southern region; it permeates the history of our nation. It's not to say that we haven't made progress. Obviously we have with our first African American president, and I never thought that would happen in my lifetime.
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While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.
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If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.
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You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.
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To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
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Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.
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I participate in the SNAP Challenge to raise awareness about the millions of people in our communities who struggle with hunger on a daily basis despite living in the most prosperous nation ever known.
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It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.
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My dad wouldn't even start the car until he heard the click of every seat belt.
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Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.
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I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.
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No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.
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I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.
