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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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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All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn't make you feel fatigued.
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I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing.
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Much rain wears the marble.
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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.
