Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
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What matters is that there is somewhere for those who are troubled, threatened or afraid to turn to in their darkest hour. What matters is that there are those who are willing and able to use the law as an instrument of inclusion, of protection, and of freedom.
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Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.
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Live a life of grace. You'll be a better person for it, and so will your children.
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I don't mind sacrifice. I don't mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I've seen that. I didn't have it.
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There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
