Jennifer Esposito Quotes
Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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I believe a strong NATO has been the bulwark of our defence in Europe. Obviously that's important in the UK national interest and I believe it's important in the US national interest.
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Being called a new artist doesn't bother me at all.
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That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.
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My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.
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Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.
