Garrison Keillor Quotes
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.
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My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
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I love to write.
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I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
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I want to try everything.
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
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You can't play a bad person; you can only be a person who does bad things for the right reasons.
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As any successful mad scientist will tell you, energy ain't free. Popular culture tends to forget this, instead focusing on the destructive capabilities of our finely crafted death rays without noting the massive energy expenditures required to use them.
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The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.
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Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
