Antoine R. Ivins Quotes
If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
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Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
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If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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I wouldn't know how to retire.
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Some, like Mother Teresa, are born with a gene to help the poor, and some are born with a gene to write. I was born with a gene to tell my story, and I just had to.
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I knew just by reading this guy, Nathanael West, that he was probably one of those icky East Coast guys with glasses who got mad because when he came to L.A., all those starlets preferred producers or cowboys to him.
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There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.
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Sometimes fans, sometimes even players, they don't know the game sometimes, and they look at numbers, or they use smoke-and-mirrors as far as who's a top 15 player, who's a top 20 player.
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If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life.
