Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes
Americans have a severe disease - worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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I wanted to create flats that are as chic as heels - flats you don't have to apologize for.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.
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At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
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I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.
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At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.
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Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.
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I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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Even though there were three newspapers in Chicago at the time, he said 'you wouldn't want to compete with your husband," and so instead of doing what I might do now in that situation, I basically saluted and found other things to do.
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People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.
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I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.
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Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.
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If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.
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In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
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Americans have a severe disease - worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.
