Vito Fossella Quotes
Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.
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The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far.
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At a certain point, a critical mass of people either have used the Internet or have expectations. Anything less than the free flow of information will be seen as having something taken away. We've seen time and again - in Egypt and Iran, for example - that creates a backlash.
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I'm not looking to be a superstar. I just want to be in a room with good people who are similar to me and are at least open to things that I have to say.
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Death never excites such sympathy as it does when it assumes the shape of murder.
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Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.
