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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The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.
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Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.
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I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.
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I actually believe that we need missile defense, because of Iran and North Korea and the potential for them to obtain or to launch nuclear weapons, but I also believe that, when we are only spending a few hundred million dollars on nuclear proliferation, then we're making a mistake.
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As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.
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No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.
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Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.
