Michael Rapaport Quotes
Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!
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Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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Honestly my style sense, I guess, started in high school when I was a volleyball player. That was just what I wore: leggings every single day with my sports bra so I didn't have to change into it in the girls' gym locker room and that's kind of how it started.
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For us, #BlackLivesMatter is really a re-humanization project. It's a way for us to love each other again, to love ourselves, and to project that love into the world so that we can transform it.
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An author's ability to bring a marketing synopsis to the table - along with a great manuscript - makes a difference in what books get picked up. This is true for both fiction and nonfiction titles. You need to show your publisher what you've got in your marketing arsenal.
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I'm in a generation where MAC is the reigning brand for a lot of women - black, white, and other.
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Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.
