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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Everything's so accelerated now.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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A burnt child loves the fire.
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The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.
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Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
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Back in the day, I was definitely a child of alternative radio.
