Daniel Ellsberg Quotes
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My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.
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And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!
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I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.
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But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.
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My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.
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The people of the Fifth District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington.
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The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.
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It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.
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You go into each game looking to win. We're not looking at wins or losses because it proves something as a team. We go into every game trying to get better. As long as you compete, we're gonna play our hearts out; we're improving every day.
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I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
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Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers and there are times when we need to be nurtured.
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I express Catalonia's wish of being in the E.U. We'll see what happens.
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Sports can't be run by governments.
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The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
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We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.
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If I go to Germany, I learn something in addition. The German television is very precise and respectable. One has never stress. In Italy it is more dynamic. But I amuse myself madly in both countries.
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I'd begun to collect things that were lying in piles on the floor of my studio. I had run out of space, and I started to build shelves. I turned around one day and realized that that was the vehicle for carrying so many of the things that I was looking at and talking about, so they went from the walls to the works.
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Oprah didn't want to put me on the show for a really long time because she thought I was more for the men than for the women.
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With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.
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We weren't on the wrong side. We are the wrong side.
