Beau Bokan Quotes
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
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Humans are very good at dreaming, although you’d never know it from your television.
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Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.
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I represent New York, I represent the Bronx, I represent the Dominican Republic. And I always have that in mind with everything that I do.
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You can't go looking for another one of those franchises. You only ever get one of those. You get 'Stars Wars'; you get 'Indiana Jones' or get 'The Matrix.' I've had my franchise.
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To go in the water and stare at a shrimp for three minutes and not think about anything else in the world, it's just euphoric.
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My mom, grandma, great-grandma - we're all named Mary, and we all play piano and sing.
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Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.
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I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.
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I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.
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It felt like a pretentious fantasy to say, 'I want to be an actress.'
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I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
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We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.
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I grew up outside of Seattle, and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of questioning, and guilt. Almost an "anti-ambition." Like, an awareness, and then a subsequent guilt. But sometimes that progressive, liberal guilt is really obnoxious, too - in some ways, I think it's better to just own it. It's weird, that actually, the acknowledgement of privilege or the enactment of guilt can be as obnoxious as anything else. It's a never-ending rabbit hole. We're really in a rabbit hole right now, with this conversation. We're just spiraling down into the void.
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Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them.
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Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.
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Traveling takes a lot out of you.
