Bel Kaufman Quotes
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I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
Wanda Sykes
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I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.
Nate Robinson
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Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.
Bat for Lashes
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I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.
Lady Gaga
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My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.
Carlene Carter
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Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.
Nate Silver
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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I've always liked using flutes and clarinets. Any time I can use those, I'm really happy.
Allan Carl Newman
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I think enjoying each other in a creative way is usually a result of when you're doing something that might be problematic - might be a little difficult to uncover. I've done it once in a stage production; we came in for two days and, just as an experiment, the director had us reading each other's roles. You hear another voice interpreting a line that maybe you were having trouble with. It can be very helpful. But we weren't really in the kind of situation where that was necessary.
Alfred Molina
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Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
William James
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When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.
Winfield Scott Hancock
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Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
Sarah J. Maas
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Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
Henry Kissinger
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There is also a great deal of behind-the-scenes pressure from political funders too. And by funders I don't just mean the fossil fuel industry. Many of those exerting pressure on our society to ignore climate change, oppose climate change legislation, and shut down efforts to develop a clean energy economy are doing so out of ideology, not just economics. In the simplest terms, many large industries don't want the government telling them what to do with their businesses and they don't want any restrictions on what they can and cannot do, which includes polluting our shared environment.
Katharine Hayhoe
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On Sundays, I usually go to church with my mother.
Mike Coffman
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Evening dinner dates can cloud your judgment.
Ray Fearon
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I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.
Meredith Baxter