Johannes Heesters Quotes
Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.
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Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.
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'Guardians of the Galaxy' is tongue-in-cheek and has a sense of humor about itself. But it's nothing like 'Deadpool.' 'Deadpool' is this super-bizarre thing. The best thing about it is that it's R-rated.
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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
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When somebody keeps telling you, 'This book is amazing,' you sort of have this pleasing instinct to say, 'Oh, let me make you happy again; let me do that trick again.'
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I think there's a really mature side of me that can deal with problems - but when I'm with my friends, I get to act much more kidlike.
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When I pull my hair back in a ponytail, that's how you know I'm having a hard day.
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I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.
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I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works. I mean, a lot of the kids I know are really politically involved. They really care about politics. I think we're going to have an incredible impact on how politics end up shaking this country.
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I am opposed to it under any and all circumstances, and in our convention urged our party not to commit themselves at all upon the subject.
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Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.
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Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.
