Al Dubin Quotes
We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
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I want to become more famous, even more famous.
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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
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I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.
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My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'
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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
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I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.
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Being home schooled is awesome because you can make your own schedule, so as far as time management, it's up to you how much you get done and when you get it done. It's all got to get done; how you do it is up to you. You need a lot of self-discipline, but luckily, I have it.
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I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.
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When you write about hope, don't make it sappy; make it cool, make it adaptable.
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We want a Colorado that works for everybody.
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I can eat whatever I want, and I don't get over 145 pounds. A lot of the guys who fight at 125 pounds, they get pretty big, and when it gets closer to the fight, they're walking around at 135 pounds. For me, I try to stay the same weight I typically walk around at.
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I remember sitting on the back of the bus on the first day of the Social Experiment tour with my face in my hands. I emptied out my bank account, and before I did that tour, that was the number one thing I said I'd never do. I'll never empty out my savings.
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One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.
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I think that now is the moment for us to rededicate ourselves to learning the truth about what happened on February 21st [when Malcolm X was killed]. The place to begin is to make all evidence public, and we have to begin with the federal government, and the FBI.
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I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love.
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While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
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Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It's all I know.
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We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!
