Gene Baur Quotes
The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
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That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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I enjoy money.
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Young people want you to be real with them.
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Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
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This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.
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I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.
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I don't know a lot of people who achieve what they have really dreamed of as a little girl.
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I have so many favourite science fiction films. I would say 'Alien' and 'Aliens' are two of my favourite sci-fi films. Also 'Children of Men' would be one of my favourite science fiction films. I love the original 'Solaris' and the remake. And even though it wasn't a film, the series 'Battlestar Galactica' was one of my favourite TV shows.
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Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.
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Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards - a massive star.
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It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
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I had known, number one, that there would never be any role for me in the leadership capacity with SCLC. Why? First, I'm a woman. Also, I'm not a minister. And second, I am a person that feels that I have to maintain some degree of personal integrity and be my own barometer of what is important and what is not.
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The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.
