Jay Parini Quotes
Language kills, and inflamed rhetoric of the kind that spews almost daily from the lips of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and others running for public office in this country should be condemned.
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Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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A house is kind of scary.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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I'm the type of guy that likes to lead by example.
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I wasn't going to be drafted to steal bases at 18.
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The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.
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I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.
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We are a country that lacks riches. The Jewish brain, that's what we have. Everything that we've had and will have in this country is the direct and clear product of higher education. If we harm this system, we will drastically decline and cease to exist.
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Language kills, and inflamed rhetoric of the kind that spews almost daily from the lips of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and others running for public office in this country should be condemned.
