Ricki Lake Quotes
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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I don't want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it's going to be like to have kids and you're like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.' And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
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I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.
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It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn't want to let it go.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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I love to fly so much.
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I want to dress well. I want to look good.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.
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The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
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I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.
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The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.
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Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
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The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
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The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.
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Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.
