Barbara Amiel Quotes
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
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I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.
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My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
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I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.
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CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.
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I don't promote giving up. I promote fighting and winning.
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The world is a mirror representing the divine life.
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I like to use the analogy of going to the gym. If you go to the gym and your goal is, 'I want to look just like David Beckham,' then that drives you to do certain things. You may never look like Beckham, but it is a goal. Cities need the same thing. They need a vision and a plan for their ideal physique.
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I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second or third century, prior to the arrival of Christianity when Paganism flourished. I can always go back there in my imagination, of course. It doesn't cost anything, and it's a form of time travel, I suppose.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
