Harpo Marx Quotes
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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The first idea is an imagined thing.
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When you are a politician, it means to work for the benefit of the country, not to stay home. In politics, it ends only when one dies.
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People always want the stars of movies to fall in love with one another.
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Hope is the best contraceptive.
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Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia' online.
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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
