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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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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Who would be such a fool as to make advances to his reader, advances which might end in rejection or, worse still, in acceptance?
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A scapegoat remains effective as long as we believe in its guilt.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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When I see kids who naturally get A's and who naturally score high on tests and the teachers naturally like them because they require the least amount of management - when they come out into the real world, I find they're very poor at getting through obstacles. And life is about solving obstacles.
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I think we need to do as much as we can to give back to these young kids growing up. I think we've done a pretty decent job so far.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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With two kids. It's always too busy.