Blackie Sherrod Quotes
If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.
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I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.
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As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.
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It's important to focus on how we can strengthen international trade.
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Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.
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Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
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I don't think because you have money you have taste... Education and money - this is quite rare. No?
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
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No man should be angry with what is true.
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Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.
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...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.
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If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?
