Bushwick Bill (Richard Stephen Shaw) Quotes
See driving is like stabbing someone, it's very personal. While flying is like shooting someone, it's more distant.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.
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I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.
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Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
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In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network.
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I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody.
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I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
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To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.
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Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair.
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The world’s been waiting, they’ve been waiting for years And they’ve just gotta hear it The kids are waiting, they’ve been shedding tears So open your arms and sing for us
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I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not. You must be laughing at me for feeling you are laughing at me if you are not laughing at me.
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As with all the other proposals, it's basically just a list of words. You can deal with that...
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We've all been influenced by American naturalism, and to ignore that entirely would be impossible for me as someone who works primarily in film.
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People have given their lives to this industry to make movies compelling.
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My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.
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. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.
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Being sad and being depressed are two different things. Also, people going through depression don't look so, while someone sad will look sad. The most common reaction is, 'How can you be depressed? You have everything going for you. You are the supposed number one heroine and have a plush home, car, movies... What else do you want?'
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Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.
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See driving is like stabbing someone, it's very personal. While flying is like shooting someone, it's more distant.
