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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Coffee is my water now.
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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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I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn't give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It's not a spread-open-the-arms, 'come here' hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries.
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I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and the leaders have to be striving for that standard with all there is in them.
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Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may think.
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I've won every title, and I've done everything in my division.
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As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.
