Jayson Blair Quotes
If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
Ed Helms
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
Frances Conroy
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
Tarja Halonen
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
Eddy Cue
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
A. A. Milne
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
Garry Trudeau
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
H. Rap Brown
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
Gaby Hoffmann
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The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
Cam
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
D. H. Lawrence
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Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
Pat Paulsen
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
Rachael Taylor
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In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.
Pastor Maldonado
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In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
Breyten Breytenbach
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The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.
Joel Silver
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
Oscar Wilde
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Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.
Richard L. Evans
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Weight having become politicised, anyone with a profile in the media who either subscribes to or departs from the template of tininess implicitly represents a constituency, whether they want to or not.
Lionel Shriver
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If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?
Jayson Blair