Joe Biden Quotes
I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
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It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued. Just think about the Congress and Senate and even the president. The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.
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I never act my characters - I am them.
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I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.
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I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.
