Ted Deutch Quotes
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist.
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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
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Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.
