Amelia Barr Quotes
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
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I try to mix it up! I do a little Pilates. I do a little Cardio Barre; sometimes I run or do the stairs.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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'...there were some things that were true, and some things that were trite; but what was true was trite, and what was not trite was not true...'
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Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance - you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
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A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
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I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.
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My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definitely.
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Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
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It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not.
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The relationship I have with my Hispanic fans is very deep and intricate.
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...the remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
