Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
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I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I watched videos of great players. I was inspired by what they did, then I used to try things out in training.
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In life, I have been a very lucky person; I have had a good married life, good friends, though I am not as educated as I would have liked to be.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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... I feel the American public would be in a better position to exercise freedom of dietary choice if it were stated in bold print on the Goals and Food Selection pages that the value of dietary change remains controversial and that science cannot at this time insure that an altered diet will provide improved protection from certain killer diseases such as heart disease and cancer.
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Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
