Adolph Rupp Quotes
“I wouldn’t give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.”
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man.
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When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.
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Sierra Leone and Liberia must remain vigilant, that if you think somebody is sick with Ebola, you must get help immediately. Otherwise there could be a resurgence of Ebola. So everybody must remain vigilant.
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Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.
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“I wouldn’t give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.”
