Tony Dorsett Quotes
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
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We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.
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There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.
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I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.
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When I was pregnant, I was like, 'I'm pregnant, so I'm allowed to eat everything: bagels with cream cheese for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and I can have pizza for dessert.'
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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Poet: 'Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic.' Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and the matrix of connectivity that defines modern life: authenticity over authority, surprise over consistency, celebrity over experience.
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The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
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Fashion for my mother was about asserting and demonstrating you had aesthetics, tastes, sensibility, manners, beauty - qualities that black people were always trying to prove they possessed, because it was often assumed that we didn't.
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It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
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Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.
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A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.
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All a lot of women see are dollar signs.
