Alexander Pope Quotes
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
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Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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I think if I was going to be someone for a day, I would want to be a performer, someone big, like Rihanna. I'd want to feel the energy of being on stage. I've always found that very interesting.
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So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.
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Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.
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The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
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I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.
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I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
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Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
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People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
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Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
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I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America - singing the National Anthem.
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It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.
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It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.
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The experience I had seeing Star Wars for the first time was mind-blowing. Eleven is a great age to have your mind blown. I will never forget that feeling of seeing 'Long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away' fade out. It was the first time a movie made me believe in another world that way.
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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I think “The Book of Mormon” has made that difference in its field. It changed the game. It’s something that 20 years from now people will still be talking about, hopefully. That’s my goal as an artist, as a creator, as a work for hire, is to choose projects that make people think, make people talk, and make people interested in having a dialogue.
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If you asked central casting in Hollywood for somebody to play the role of President, they'd send you John Connally.
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We say, 'You may drink at the age of 21 but not at the age of 20.' Why? Because humans like to create terribly neat categories out of nature because it allows us a nice, tight social organization. The truth is, nature doesn't care that we like nice, neat social organizations. Nature likes variety.
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He who take cookie to bed have crummy night ahead.
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At every word a reputation dies.
