John Ashcroft Quotes
If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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I've been very lucky.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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I broke things to get attention.
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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They even say that an altar dedicated to Ulysses, with the addition of the name of his father, Laertes, was formerly discovered on the same spot, and that certain monuments and tombs with Greek inscriptions, still exist on the borders of Germany and Rhaetia.
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My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
