Jessica Williams Quotes
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I have always loathed working out.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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The main reserve of the Haisla Nation hugs the northwest coast of British Columbia, about 500 miles north of Vancouver. The government docks sprawl on the south end of the reserve, nestled in a bay. As children, we swam at the docks and ran to the nearby point to pick blueberries and huckleberries when we were hungry so we wouldn't have to go home.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
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As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder company after company, taking rich fees for themselves and cutting costs until there's nothing left to cut. Time and again I've seen their reckless behavior drive companies to declare bankruptcy.
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I haven't mowed a lawn in quite a while, but I remember hating that when I was growing up. To please Dad, you have to get it right, and that's the thing. You have to please Dad.
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A mother should never be blamed for working.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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I think people have a lot of layers. I know I do in particular.
