Amber Dermont Quotes
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.
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Politics is a good thing!
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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I like - I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.
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I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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He's one of my closest friends in the industry. He makes me feel like a teenager - I have to act and think like an adult so much. He makes me feel young again.
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Barbados: 'A proper bum island this Barbados....It's a unique sort of scenery, very ugly, & I didn't take much to the coloured population, who are revolting.' (26-27 March 1920)
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I never wear suits.
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
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We are determined to build a society defined by decency and integrity that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard-earned savings of ordinary people.
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The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.
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I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.
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I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.
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You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.
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Oscar always opens up doors, especially the night of the Oscars. On that night, you hold that gold man, and it's like having Gandalf's staff. You can go anywhere and do anything. It's a talisman of such power.
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My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food - the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip a Cuban record.
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The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.
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James Fitzjames Stephen
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I slept well that night because someone had been kind to me.
