Babe Ruth Quotes
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Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
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When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
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I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
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The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.
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When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.
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There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
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We have a battery of tests planned at regular intervals including DNA methylation analysis, gene expression profile changes, telomere length (both TAT and QTRAP measured) and various other metrics that will highlight positive changes to aging biomarkers.
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Don't call me 'sir; 'King Jew' will do fine.
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I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.
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The soul is subject to dollars.
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Hotter than hell, ain't it, Prez?
