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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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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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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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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To speak only of food inspections: the United States currently imports 80% of its seafood, 32% of its fruits and nuts, 13% of its vegetables, and 10% of its meats. In 2007, these foods arrived in 25,000 shipments a day from about 100 countries. The FDA was able to inspect about 1% of these shipments, down from 8% in 1992. In contrast, the USDA is able to inspect 16% of the foods under its purview. By one assessment, the FDA has become so short-staffed that it would take the agency 1,900 years to inspect every foreign plant that exports food to the United States.
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You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you'd go off with a brochure in hand and you'd turn up and it wouldn't be like that at all.
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I'm a big road trip guy. I'm the guy who gets in the RV and drives across country. And when you do that, you really get to see small-town America.
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The kind of problem that America faces in Iraq is a little bit the kind of problem that Israel faced in dealing with Hezbollah. If the conflict, the theater of conflict enlarges, it's going to become more and more absorbing and more and more costly.
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Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.
