Jerry Greenfield Quotes
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.
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I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity.
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I'm a fun-loving guy. We are basically from Amritsar and ours is a chilled-out family. I think I have got my humour from my mother.
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Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.
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I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
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The diamond scintillates less brilliantly when the fingers move rapidly than when they undulate and pivot. Glossy leaves throw off less light in a high wind than under the calm wavering of a breeze. Brusque movements of the eye cast a single gleam, and slow movements add a thousand others.
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It's the same old tune, fiddle and guitar.Where do we take it from here?Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars;We've been the same way for years.We need to change.
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All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no...
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There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.
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If I'm to fall, would you be there to applaud, or would you hide behind them all? 'Cause if I have to go, in my heart you'd grow, and that's where you belong.
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And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.
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One out of every 100 families in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's.
