Vicki Lawrence Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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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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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
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I can't be bothered with narrative. It takes too long for me to try to think of it.
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People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life.
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It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.
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When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
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Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.