Joel Siegel Quotes
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.
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In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being silly up there.
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They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
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Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.
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In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in. On the other hand, a central bank can overregulate and choke the economy, and then we will have a dead banking industry.
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Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
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Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.
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While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.
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I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.
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You learn that different people are made differently, and they have different ways to reach to their goals. Some people reach their limits of what they can produce and create, and that doesn't necessarily make them bad. It is just that they may not be right for that role in that instance.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.
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Once, in a magazine interview, I said the difference between shoe ladies and bag ladies is that shoe ladies are just a bit classier. Finished! That started World War III among all the women I knew. I only meant that shoes do more for your look and body than bags do!
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My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
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Coal is cheap, but up to what extent are we going to allow coal plants to operate?
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The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.
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It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender... In being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages.
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I liked television, and television liked me.
