Jorma Taccone Quotes
I grew up in Berkeley and my parents were hippies, obviously, since my name's 'Jorma.' I didn't watch much television growing up because they weren't into it at all.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
Questlove
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
Fat Joe
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
Vernon Howard
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
Ralph Norman
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
Abhishek Bachchan
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Nadine Gordimer
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
L. Sprague de Camp
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
Karl Lagerfeld
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
Abraham Polonsky
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
Jackie Chan
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
Fidel Castro
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac
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If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
Nathan Myhrvold
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
Valerie Azlynn
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
Kaley Cuoco
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I have a tightly edited closet. I like what I like. And I repeat a lot. But I'm always comfortable in jeans - I feel like I can really do anything when I'm in them.
Katie Holmes
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What happens when you get to the age of 60 is that you have no more doubts. I know why I'm here on this planet. I know what I need to do. I know what is a distraction and what isn't.
John Zorn
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We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
Carl Honore
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You're sureThere's a cure.And you have finally found it.You thinkOne drinkWill shrink you 'til you're undergroundAnd living down.But it's not going to stop.It's not going to stop.It's not going to stop'Til you wise up.
Aimee Mann
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You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
Liev Schreiber
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I grew up in Berkeley and my parents were hippies, obviously, since my name's 'Jorma.' I didn't watch much television growing up because they weren't into it at all.
Jorma Taccone