Beetlejuice (Lester Green) Quotes
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
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I don't want to say I can't wait to get back to normal life, because I don't. I don't want to get back to normal life.
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I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don't know where I'm going to take my career.
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Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional'
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Well, America has been here for years.
