Big Joe Turner Quotes
I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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I received free health care.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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People want you to fail.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.
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My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.
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When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.
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I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.
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The others are even more likely to obey their god.Which is? It dangles between their legs.
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I think that once you’ve seen the ways in which lots of these animals are killed and how brutal and grotesque and unnecessary it is, I think that people would automatically choose not to wear fur.
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'There is a steep and lofty wall,Where my warders trembling stand,He who at speed shall ride round its height,For him shall be my hand.'
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
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The wind which passes through the skins of animals will make men leap up:-That is the bagpipes, which cause men to dance.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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I've always spent money on books. I've always enjoyed handling books - the size, the format. I feel very strongly about original ephemera.
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He liked everything about the university except the students.
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Personally, I read a lot of scripts.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.
