Eugene Field Quotes
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
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Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.
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Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.
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My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
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I've got two Rolexes that I'm very proud of - a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one I gifted myself. I'm trying to step my game up and get a few more of those.
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I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner.
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I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.
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They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we're going to continue to help.
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We never fit in completely to [the punk] scene because we were writing love songs that were heartfelt and endearing. Some of the punks didn't know what to make of us, but I finally realized that was what made us punk. We sang what we meant, from the heart, and didn't worry about what anyone was going to think.
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You are no longer paid just for the hours that you put in, but for what you put into those hours.
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I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs I say, 'no.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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One of the things that's troubling is that people see Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, hey look, you know, we're having children. We're not married, but we are having these children and they're doing just fine. And I think it gives a distorted image that, yes, not everybody hires nannies and caretakers and nurses.
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The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.
