Mick Cornett Quotes
If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.
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In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
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A book is either autobiography or a novel.
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I think Alison Krauss is one of the most amazing singers ever. As a songwriter - this is gonna sound cheesy - I love Randy Newman. And my mom passed on a love of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. At one point I was so into the Indigo Girls, just like I was so into the Dixie Chicks, those female harmonies.
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I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.
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Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.
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I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there weren't too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.
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In 1688, Edward Lloyd opened a coffeehouse on London's seafront popular among underwriters, men in powdered wigs with mathematical minds and steely constitutions who offered to compensate owners if their boats were lost at sea.
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It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.
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Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.
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You will definitely find moments where somebody else is going to try to suppress you or put you down, but you have a choice in how you see yourself.
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'Shameless' was the first project I've ever booked, and I'm really happy for it!
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If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed.
