John Wanamaker Quotes
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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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I've been a fortunate girl: I grew up in a family that loved me from day one. I feel well grounded and lucky from that. So everything else is a bonus, because I grew up in this family that I adored, and adored me, and I think when you have that, you are already ahead of the game in the sense of how you feel about yourself.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!
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Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.
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I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.
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I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.
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Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.
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There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.
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I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
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If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.
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'Hamlet' is the most famous play in the world for a reason. The journey you go on is incredible.
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There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue that we are a European country.
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I may be smaller in size, but I'm pretty feisty. I don't give up easily once I get started.
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All that we know who lie in gaol - Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.
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Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.
