Ertharin Cousin Quotes
I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
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I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.
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Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can't help myself. There's something about my mind that always wants to keep counting.
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Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.
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Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.
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It's really empowering to have curly hair.
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I grew up in war-torn Iraq, and I believe that there are two sides of wars and we've only seen one side of it. We only talk about one side of it. But there's another side that I have witnessed as someone who lived in it and someone who ended up working in it.
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What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.
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Many black men leave because they are financially responsible-not because they are emotionally irresponsible.
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A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Frankly, I think I might scare the parties, and that would be a good thing.
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Human Felicity is produc'd not so much by great Pieces of good Fortune that seldom happen, as by little Advantages that occur every Day.
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Since the announcement that Boeing was going to open a plant in Charleston, South Carolina, Boeing has actually created 2,000 new jobs in Washington state. So it's hard to say you are retaliating against the union when you create 2,000 members to their role.
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A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.
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I believe that the world is a safer and a better place when the United States is the strongest military power in the world.
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I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
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I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.
