Sargent Shriver Quotes
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Follow the yellow brick road.
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My responsibility is to follow the law.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.
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I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
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With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we're still in control of what we're doing, and it's a great time in our existence.
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I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke.
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I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.
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In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.
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Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
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There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.
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I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I'm working on, one of them based off my one-woman show that I used to do in New York. Two of the screenplays I've written by myself, and then I'm also working on one with my writing partner, Tom Riley, who's in London.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.
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Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.
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The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.
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If you're quiet, knowing that there's a culture of racism inside most police departments, and you're not saying anything, you are on the wrong side of history.
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Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
