Gene Ween Quotes
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
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Embrace your weirdness!
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.
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I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
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I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
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I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.
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I'm a fatalist.
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The world tells us to be mean and bitter to survive. But I believe kindness is the very thing that makes us thrive.
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If there were no limitations or consequences, what would your perfect average day look like?
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I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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I was never into smart college boy music.
