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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I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.
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What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
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At first I thought I should be a second Beethoven; presently I found that to be another Schubert would be good; then gradually, satisfied with less and less, I resigned to be a Humperdinck.
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Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.
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To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves.
