Arlene J. Chai Quotes
The past defines us as much as the present. By never knowing my past, I was never sure of who I was. Because mine was missing, I never felt whole.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.
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Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
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I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.
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I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.
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I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
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Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.
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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
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'The Kids Are All Right' is amazing. The performances are insanely good. Julianne Moore is going to wreck you. This is the best I've ever seen her, and I've seen everything she's ever done. I like the story, and I think it's a great alternative to the big summer popcorn blockbusters.
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When I realized I could use Facebook as a way to communicate directly with my fans, I thought it would be a great idea.
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'Tis as human a little story as paper could well carry (115.36)
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I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?
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The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.
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Suppose I broke away and left you, or made it impossible for you to stay. That I was base and false; in every way unworthy of your love, and it was clearly right for you to go, what would you do then?
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To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
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The past defines us as much as the present. By never knowing my past, I was never sure of who I was. Because mine was missing, I never felt whole.
