Simeon Strunsky Quotes
A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
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I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.
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The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
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War is the province of danger.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.
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I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
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I have big hands – I wear either a XXXL or XXL glove. I have a 6-8 wingspan on a 5-11 body – I can dunk. My wingspan allows me to do a lot of things that other people at my height might not be able to do.
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The FCC does not have performance goals or measures to assess the specific impact of the fund or to improve the management of the program.
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I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.
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Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.
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Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.
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A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.
