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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When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.
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Because of their age - long training in human relations - for that is what feminine intuition really is - women have a special contribution to make to any group enterprise, and I feel it is up to them to contribute the kinds of awareness that few men... have incorporated through their education.
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There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.
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If you're going to be a vegetarian, limit yourself to food from a place you can go to in two hours and just eat that.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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All a lot of women see are dollar signs.
