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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'PhotoCard' has 20 times as much code as the sum of 'QuickDraw,' 'MacPaint,' and 'HyperCard.' It is more elaborate and complicated, with all the client and server stuff. It took a lot more of me to do this than other projects, requiring an almost Mother Teresa dedication to do it.
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We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.
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We need new athletes all the time because we need new games every day - fudging just a little on the definition of the word 'need.' We like to have new games every day, and, if we are to have a constant and endless flow of games, we need a constant flow of athletes.
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'Teletubbies' is a national institution, and it was a privilege to be asked to be their voice. It feels super surreal, but it does feel wonderful.
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It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
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Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.
