Alexander Pope Quotes
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.
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I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
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The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'
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Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.
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There is kind of a typical experience as a premier. You go in, you win a couple, you get out. Go serve on boards, take your head out of the political ringer and take on a much more private life.
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World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'
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You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
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I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.
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That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.
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The unconscious, which those who always speak of it least possess.
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I know she's not perfect but she tries so hard for meAnd I thank god that she isn't 'cause how boring would that be?It's the little imperfections, it's the sudden change in plans.When she misreads the directions and we're lost but holdin' hands.Yeah I live for little moments like that.
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The fact that people are actually shaving their eyebrows is very flattering. But it's crazy that people are singing songs I wrote in my bedroom.
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
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You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.
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In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.
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Your energy is a barometer for your passion.
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I'm a big fan of Nora Ephron, who believed everything is copy, and I agree.
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A lot of people say to me, 'Is this good, to do to a Shakespeare piece?' And I think, 'You know, 'West Side Story' did it very cleverly, in a different way.' But if you look at 'Bonnie and Clyde,' 'Titanic,' 'Avatar,' 'Grease,' 'Brokeback Mountain'... they're all 'Romeo and Juliet' stories.
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I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.
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Every phenomenon can be experienced in two ways. These two ways are not arbitrary, but are bound up with the phenomenon – developing out of its nature and characteristics : Externally – or – inwardly.
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Life doesn't get more real than having a newborn at home.
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There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much.
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Each finding like a friendSomething to blame, and something to commend.
