Sean Duffy Quotes
As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.
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My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.
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I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.
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As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.
