Larry Speakes Quotes
When, at the age of seven, he blew up the family truck by dropping a match down the gas tank, we should have known he'd grow up to make his living hurling verbal firebombs at presidents.
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The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.
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I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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I feel best when I am modestly dressed. It's a choice I make and am proud of; for me, I don't think I have to show skin to be beautiful.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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All singers, no matter how gifted, should always try to go improve. And all students begin in the same place despite the level of their talent. It's like bodybuilding: All people who train use similar exercises no matter how naturally physically endowed a person may be. I have worked with many of the most brilliant singers in modern music and it's always the case that they have a great deal of under-realized potential no matter how amazing their abilities.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.
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The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.
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When, at the age of seven, he blew up the family truck by dropping a match down the gas tank, we should have known he'd grow up to make his living hurling verbal firebombs at presidents.
