Eugene Mirman Quotes
School, in general, was not great. Children are just mean to each other... but by high school, I probably stopped being annoying to people, and people stopped being mean. By the end of it, it was wonderful.
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There is always pressure in football.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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I had so much fun developing and launching my first fragrance with Avon, so for my second fragrance, I really wanted to add a little more edge. Outspoken Intense is a provocative blend of sexy confidence and daring femininity that captures the thrill and excitement of being centre stage.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
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The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
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If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.
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Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
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I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.
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I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.
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Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better idea of what to do.
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Most federal employees perform their tasks honorably and well.
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Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.
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I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you're a diva. They can't believe after eight years, and eight albums, you're still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody.
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The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.
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Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just speak your mother tongue. That way, no one knows what you're saying. Life goes on.
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Be hard on yourself, easy on others.
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.
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School, in general, was not great. Children are just mean to each other... but by high school, I probably stopped being annoying to people, and people stopped being mean. By the end of it, it was wonderful.
