Maxine Waters Quotes

I had to ask my grandchildren, 'What does it mean? I threw shade?'

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• Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.

  

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• I am a citizen of the world.

  

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• I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.

  

  Yann Martel
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• Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

  

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• I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.

  

  Barry Manilow
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• I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.

  

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• Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.

  

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• Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

  

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• Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?' 'Of course there is,' said the Master. 'How would you describe it?' 'Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.'

  

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• I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.

  

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• I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

  

  Mark Messier
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• And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.

  

  Buddy Rich
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• The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.

  

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• I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

  

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• Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) cannot be medicated. It is treatable only through therapy. The problem is therapy is rarely sought by the afflicted. It cannot be cured.

  

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• I have people in my family with bipolar disorder, and for years I've watched them struggle with the disorder's extreme moods and often devastating consequences.

  

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• I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you think about it?'

  

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• I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.

  

  Jeff Lindsay
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• It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.

  

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• When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.

  

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• I get up every morning and I'm grateful for everything that has happened. I go through my list about being grateful for my children and grandchildren, and for the really remarkable life that I have been able to have.

  

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• Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.

  

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• I'm a huge Bob Marley fan; I remember going to Jamaica for the first time when I was a kid and I got so obsessed with the steel drums.

  

  Matthew Morrison
  • Time
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• I had to ask my grandchildren, 'What does it mean? I threw shade?'

  

  Maxine Waters
  • Grandchildren