John H. Plumb Quotes
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
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I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
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I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.
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Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn't been to classes in months, and I'd get tired to the point of narcolepsy doing anything other than some form of performing, directing, writing, or acting.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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As a memoirist, I may claim to write the easier-to-remember things, but I could also just be writing to sweep them away. 'Don't bother me about my past,' I'll say, 'It's out in paperback now.'
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The past has always been the handmaid of authority.
