Sam Ervin Quotes
The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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Seeing Donald Trump run for and then win the presidency only enhanced my commitment to helping people free themselves from ridiculous body standards and disordered eating so they can use their gifts for more fulfilling things, like being of service and enjoying this beautiful world.
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Men fall in love through their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears, through words.
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I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.
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It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
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Being timeless means you can listen to something when you're feeling a certain way, and it still has that same power as it did when you listened to the record for the first time. Timeless is abnormal. It sticks out. It can't be recreated.
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The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
