L. Todd Rose Quotes
It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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Both of our children are adopted, and my wife and I didn't go out of ways to find kids that looked like us. We were just happy to have some kids. And people tell me all the time that they look like us, and that's because they learn to smile and laugh and move their head a certain way from studying their parents' faces.
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Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.
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Chemistry's a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.
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It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.
