Padraic Colum Quotes
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because I was always using her as my mother, if you know what I mean.
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The scene of independent cinema is already a large scene in America, and not in a negative way, but it's cluttered. It's very populated with just American films, so the room left for foreign movies is not extremely vast. The American public also does not really read. They don't read subtitles. But we're like that in Canada, too.
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I think in high school and college, you don't really know what your routine is going to be; you're still trying to come up with it.
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We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
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Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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Gaily bedight,A gallant knight,In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long,Singing a song,In search of Eldorado.
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Even when we were still fighting in the bush against the oppressive dictatorships of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, we introduced elections for the committees of the villages under our control.
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I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that.
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The beginning is always today.
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In my mind, I imagined L.A. to be skyscrapers on the beach. Of course, that's not what it actually looks like. And growing up watching 'Beverly Hills 90210' and 'Melrose Place,' I always had an obsession with L.A. and California in general.
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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.
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I want all of my films to belong to me.
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And what is Life? - An hour-glass on the run,
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Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word 'water' is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
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I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.
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O woman shapely as a swan.
