Garrison Keillor Quotes
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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I am healthy and happy.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?
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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
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Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.
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I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End.
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But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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I want to resume the life of a shy person.
