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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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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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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For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.
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“Oh!" cried the young man. "A little deaf child! How sweet! We should adopt her and teach her to write symphonies. She'll be all the rage in town. I'll buy her a powdered wig and a tricorne!
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Back in the day, I was definitely a child of alternative radio.
