Tina Weymouth Quotes
Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
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I was studying theater management, business stuff. About that time, I realized I really didn't like that, and it threw me into a panic attack a little bit. I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life.
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I do think 'All Is by My Side' is the type of film I'm the most happiest. You know, I'm figuring it out. I did just move to New York, so I have to pay my rent.
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
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As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.
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We both may be killed by the Muslims, and must put our purity to the ultimate test, so that we know that we are offering the purest of sacrifices, and we should now both start sleeping naked.
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The people that call me to play on records call me because they think that I will suit their music. And the people whose music I suit are by and large people that I'm a fan of.
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The most important social welfare program in America is a job.
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There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
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It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.
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We've been lucky because quite a few young people keep coming to see us play. We couldn't tour as much as we do if we could only count on the baby boomers.
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Tom Tom Club has a whole different attitude and approach, not just musically but in performance. Some people said they liked it.
