Tamara Mellon Quotes
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
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I do - very specifically, I remember Bessie Smith; I used to collect 78 records that I would buy from the St Vincent de Paul store at five cents apiece, and I did this indiscriminately. I would just take whatever was there. And I listened to Patti Page and Walter Huston, 'September Song.'
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My first ever sex scene in a movie was in 'Superbad.' Because I was 17, for legal reasons my mother had to be on the set. It was real awkward, but it worked out OK because when I watched the movie with her, the sex scene wasn't awkward because she'd been right there when it happened.
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This whole process of education is to be religious, and not only religious, but Christian. And as Christianity is the only true religion, and God in Christ the only true God, the only possible means of profitable education is the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
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If no-one comes from the future to stop doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?
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My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.
