Ben Zimmer Quotes
Donald Trump himself has an idiosyncratic speaking style that relies on simple words and phrases, which worked for him in the primaries but may be coming up short for him now.
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I will keep working hard!
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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Nice to see your home fans boo you. That's what loyal support is.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
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You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
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I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
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Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
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I have always liked a challenge.
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Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet. I compare it to having a good bone structure. Make-up will make you look good, but it helps if you have a good skeleton to begin with.
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Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out.
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He George W. Bush was speaking in congress and he was saying 'Why do they hate us? Because of what’s going on right here in this chamber: a democratically elected government. Except for me, of course. I took the presidency in a bureaucratic coup with the help of my father’s friends in the courthouse around the corner.'
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Since you've been gone, I can breath for the first time.
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Donald Trump himself has an idiosyncratic speaking style that relies on simple words and phrases, which worked for him in the primaries but may be coming up short for him now.
