Eric Reed Boucher (Jello Biafra) Quotes
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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My biggest hero was Roman Gabriel, who was the QB of the Rams, and Roger Staubach. Those were the two guys I tired to emulate when I was little.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
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Gymnastics does take great focus and concentration. What I do is look to my coach. He keeps me focused. And I meditate to get myself confident before the competition floor. That helps keep me focused, too.
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In Hollywood, you can't say anything bad about anybody or everyone is going to attack you. It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.
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I'm a bit of a tech geek myself.
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Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.
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Barack Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.
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Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.
