Verite Quotes
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.
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I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.
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Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
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I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.
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Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
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We actually believe Windows 8 is the new era for the PC plus. We believe with a single push of a button you can move seamlessly in and out of both worlds. We believe you can have touch, a pen, a mouse, and a keyboard.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.
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Back in the day, I was definitely a child of alternative radio.
