Zora Neale Hurston Quotes
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you're in a situation where you're supposed to react, you need to react.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
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Everything I post online is curated.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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I have cellulite. I admit it. But sometimes I just say, 'Screw it, I am going to wear a bikini.'
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Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
