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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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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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.
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It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.
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People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!
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I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!
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Every mother wishes the best for her children.
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Well, America has been here for years.
