John Requa Quotes
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Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.
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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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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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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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I don't hate people who colour-blind cast, but I hate people who colour-blind cast and pretend that they're not, who pretend that these bodies on stage don't actually carry specific meaning.
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Who hasn't had interest from Rita Ora?
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday or work year, that does not actually capture how teachers spend their time.
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When I die, I want it to say 'Short and Funny' on my tombstone.
