Joe Meno Quotes
When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn adult to living in Paris as a full-time writer. It has also given me enormous confidence.
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The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.
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The way I look at life, whatever I'm doing at that time in my life is going to be reflected in my songs, for the most part.
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I don't want to be known as the guy who always takes his shirt off... I've done a lot of photo shoots lately for the press coming up with 'Immortals' and 'Breaking Dawn,' and every photographer wants to get the topless shot. We've really had to be choosy and not do that for every magazine. I've actually been trying to keep my clothes on more.
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I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.
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When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.
