Joe Theismann Quotes
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
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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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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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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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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
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Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
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At a horror movie, you can see other people dealing with the scary things. They can bolster you. You can think, 'Okay, if that guy can deal with it, I can deal with it.' There are lessons to be learned there, as opposed to having a frivolous popcorn experience. I think some of this stuff is good for your soul.
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Barack himself is very much a regular guy, not a silver spoon, incredibly smart, but, you know, he's a scholarship kid, made good use of the resources that were available to him, worked incredibly hard.
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Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
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Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.
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It was an honour to be a part of that series. I still get fan mail every day for that show; a big portion of my fan base is from 'Gilmore Girls.'
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Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
