Bert McCracken Quotes
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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The presumption that an extant mode is efficient if the expected net gain is negative can nevertheless be rebutted by showing that the obstacles to implementing an otherwise superior feasible alternative are 'unfair.'
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.
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Sometimes kissing is better than sex. Especially kissing someone for the first time
