J. Maarten Troost Quotes
It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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People who hadn't noticed me, or who had written me off as a game show host, started to reassess me. There were people who hadn't seen me as a stand-up artist and liked it. Suddenly I was in fashion again.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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I've been through a marriage, and I'm still very fond of my ex-husband; but if I've learned anything, it's that relationships are about compromise.
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Some people will always gossip.
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People are hungry for what's happening right now in the world.
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It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
