J. D. McClatchy Quotes
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.
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'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is not really my thing, but I kind of loved it.
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As a comedian, you have everything working against you.
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Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.
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I've always admired Jeff Bridges. I really like how one can never get a handle on what he's doing.
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The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.
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I loved rollerskating when I was younger.
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The counterculture has nothing to do with Dolce & Gabbana having a 'Hippy Summer' or something. Street kids, and kids who want to live in any sort of counter-cultural experience other than what's being presented by the mainstream media or political climate, or 'normal' cultural climate, are never going to look like that.
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I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.
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When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.
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Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'
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I go where people are hurting. I stand on the stage, and I make people laugh for an hour and a half.
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I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life.
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When we were kids, my favorite thing was coming to upstate New York where my family is from and hanging out with my grandparents' friends pre-Internet and them asking if we had stores or 'Do you have TV in Alaska?'
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I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.
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It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.
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If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.
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We don't have great answers to what jobs will look like in 10, 20, 30 years. And I think it's right for people to have some anxiety in a world where driverless cars are going to take over. Like, how are you going - it's gotten really, how are you going to have a job in 10 years, and how are your kids going to have a job in 10 years, if you haven't gone to college or had a lot of hand-ups in the system, basically.
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We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.
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'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'.
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To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves.
