Baratunde Thurston Quotes
By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
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I don't want to live on past records.
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On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
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Being on a movie set when you have a great strong people there supporting you can be very nurturing. You get to explore these creative parts of yourself as a child that most people don't explore until they're in college.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world … of lava rock and sagebrush desert. … I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since.
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Men always like what the ladies like.
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At the end of the day, we all know what the Jordan logo means, and you can't take anything away from that. But it's pretty cool to have my own logo on a Jordan shoe.
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After '8 Mile' came out and blew up, the ball has been rolling ever since.
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By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.
