John Monks Quotes
The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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We've always believed in our music.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.
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I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.
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Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.
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What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.
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The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting
