George Henry Boker Quotes
Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but death bemocking folly?
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
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I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like to do. There's a lot of good ones, but a lot of them are something that the franchise couldn't or wouldn't endorse, just as being not consistent with what the NBA would want or, probably, what we would even want, too.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.
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When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.
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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
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You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.
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This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...
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I don't like the idea of 'I've played nine years, I've made some All-Star teams, I make the most money. I've got to be a leader.' That doesn't make you a leader. Treating people the right way is more important.
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Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.
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The whole nature of the show [ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that everything is connected, and everything is interconnected. You have all of these strands with all of these characters, and you watch the characters interact and you wonder, "What do they have to do with each other? How does any of this link?"
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In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.
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I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.
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Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but death bemocking folly?
