Rachel Maddow Quotes
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I was an expert horseman.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I'm alive and I'm going to keep standing up for what I believe in. Once you get to that point, boy you are dangerous.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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Apparently, the people in the [George W.] Bush administration who wanted to confront me on this could not spell my name correctly. They wanted to send a series of emails thinking that perhaps MSNBC was perhaps favorable to the Bush administration. They thought that they could send me a series of questions or talking points to disprove Joe Wilson with.
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There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.
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I'm really great with weapons: I did a lot of bo and staff training for 'Immortals.' I love knives. I'm a pretty good shot. But I love hand-to-hand combat.
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I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.
