Jeff Duncan Quotes
We need to hit pause, and possibly reset, as we think about this whole Syrian refugee resettlement issue.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
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Love stories thrive on hope.
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I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.
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President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.
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People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out of Molly's parlor: remedies and doctors and procedures, some mainstream and some New Age. They related anecdotes of friends who had removed their own cows in one way or another. But after a while they had exhausted their suggestions. Then they usually began to pretend that the cow wasn't there, and they preferred for Molly to go along with the pretense.
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The main ideas for us are scale, stability, and audience.
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A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.
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We need to hit pause, and possibly reset, as we think about this whole Syrian refugee resettlement issue.
