Evel Knievel Quotes
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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We have been shaken by the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice - shaken, but not sufficiently unsettled. We must contextualize those losses, force our neighbors to become so deeply disturbed by what has occurred that they, too, are inspired to act to change the system.
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I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
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I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
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The familiar can feel good - especially with so much uncertainty when we turn on the news. But it doesn't uplift us, challenge us, or inspire anew as truly original work can.
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The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
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Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.
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The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it.
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I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.
