John Requa Quotes
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
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The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately.
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I started in theater, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and recharge my batteries, creatively.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.
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There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.
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Everything in high school was reversed. If marijuana was supposed to make you mellow, I would be like, "The cops, the cops, the cops..." I was what you call the buzz kill.
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Any other town you go to there's this little devil and a little angel on your shoulder. A little good advice, a little bad advice.You go to Las Vegas, there's like a devil and a devil and they're just battling it out the whole time. It's like, "Smoke some crack!" "Get a hooker!" And then I go, "YEA! Yea, this is a good town. Smoke some crack and get a hooker! Alright!"
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Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.
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The people who control culture in China have no culture.
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When I die, I want it to say 'Short and Funny' on my tombstone.
