Russell Banks Quotes
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
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I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.
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I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.
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Impatience is a virtue.
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I fall asleep everywhere! Someone recently asked if they could publish a book of pictures of me sleeping because there are so many.
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Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.
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After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.
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Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.
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I finally learned from Fred Durst, who is of my generation, that 'selling out' means every ticket at The Forum got sold. I don't think Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera sit there agonizing over their record sales. The term 'sell out' needs to be eradicated from the language, because if you don't 'sell out,' guess what? An asshole will.
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I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.
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I keep lip gloss everywhere. It always makes me feel like I am slightly put together.
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My doctoral work was completed by the end of 1950 and, at the age of twenty-two, I joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an instructor in chemistry under the distinguished chemists Roger Adams and Carl S. Marvel.
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I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
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Most big companies work in stealth until they think they have a consumer product ready to go.
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I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.
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I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.
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When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.
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You need to accept the fact that you’re not the best and have all the will to strive to be better than anyone you face.
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If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.
