Andrew Gelman Quotes
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored from Europe and the West and is becoming increasingly sectarian, autocratic, and nationalistic.
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.
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All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
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I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.
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I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
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He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.
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We cannot exert our understanding without from time to time understanding something of importance; and this act of understanding may be accompanied by the awareness of our understanding, by the understanding of understanding, by noesis noesos, and this is so high, so pure, so noble an experience that Aristotle could ascribe it to his God.
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'I’ll do everything I can to help, I promise.''You always have,' Emily murmured. Except tell me the truth about anything.
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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
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I just want to help people do better research.
