John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes
Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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Softbank 2.0 means globalisation of Softbank.
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It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.
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If you're living off credit-card advances and ramen noodles, a buyout offer might be too hard to resist. And you'll be even smarter the second time around.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
