Alexander Dewdney Quotes
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.
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New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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As a woman, and as a working mom trying to get things done, you find yourself meeting adversity a lot, but you never talk about it because you don't want to bring attention to it. You don't want to go there.
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I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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Some people call me scrappy - and that's because I am.
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I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.
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I put my foot in my mouth sometimes. I'll be the first to admit it.
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Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
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Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.
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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
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The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable.
