Beetlejuice (Lester Green) Quotes
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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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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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Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.
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It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.
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I'm not picking up dog shit. I'm a rock star.
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Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth.
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I have a lot of stories to tell because I've been down a lot of roads people haven't been.
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I don't think any of us are blameless when we all, more and more often, see ourselves not as members of a culture but as weapons in a war.
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I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
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Well, America has been here for years.
