Larry Poons Quotes
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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I like big crowds. I find it easier to focus.
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I never go to a gym unless I have to for a role, a contract. I try to take care of myself as a human being, not because I have to be in front of the camera.
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The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.
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A great painting is a great painting.
