Eddie Jemison Quotes
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It's highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking. You look at the picture, and you look at the surface, then you look at the reflection in the surface behind you, then you look at yourself.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
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I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.
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In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.
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We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.
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There's a couple guys that I'd like to wrestle, but truthfully, I want to wrestle as many guys as I can.
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I want to be the best.
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Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
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We just have to remember that we're all in this together and that we all want our state, and our country, to succeed.
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I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.
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Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
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We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.
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I could maybe coach kids' basketball. I know enough about basketball where I feel like I could coach 12-year-olds pretty effectively.
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People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'
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With two kids. It's always too busy.
