Bernard Emond Quotes
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I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
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You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'
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The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
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I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.'
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If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
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I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Time is of the essence. We must act now if we are to have the maximum possible opportunity to contain a pandemic.
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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I like to stay artistic. So I always like to draw or write.
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I love those moments in any movie or film where there's a reference to a bigger picture, especially in Marvel where everything is connected.
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My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.
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To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
