Ann Spangler Quotes
None of us is so mature that we cannot be influenced. The question is: Who or what do we want to shape our lives?
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
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Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
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I had a hit talk show. I just wasn't working for the right people.
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I'm a rather decisive type.
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I've been a free man.
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I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.
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In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.
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I wouldn't have said off-hand that I had a subconscious mind, but I suppose I must without knowing it, and no doubt it was there, sweating away diligently at the old stand, all the while the corporeal Wooster was getting his eight hours.
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So we're led by denial like lambs to the slaughterServing empires of style and carbonated sugar waterAnd the old farm road's a four-lane that leads to the mallAnd our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.
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Nobody gets through life without experiencing some form of rejection, which is why everybody knows how awful it feels.
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'Venus,' which is a Roger Michell film - my first scene was with Peter O'Toole, and I cried. That was basically my part. I came in, cried in a white wig, and then left.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see.
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I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it.
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None of us is so mature that we cannot be influenced. The question is: Who or what do we want to shape our lives?
