Abraham A. Ribicoff Quotes
I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
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To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
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I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English.
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The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
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I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
