Homer Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
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To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
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I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
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I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
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White Americans can go a long time without ever thinking about the color of their skin. Black and brown Americans have no choice but to confront issues of race every day.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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I am such a political person.
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I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!
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Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.
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I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
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I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.
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Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
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There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.
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Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.
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There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
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For all of us who listen, in the stillness of our hearts, God enlightens us and offers to lead the way.
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I've always wondered if there was a God. And now I know there is -- and it's me.
