Lee Atwater Quotes
Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll band. I would say that at least 80 percent of my energy was involved with whatever band I was involved in.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.
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I'm pretty professional. I'm very aware when I'm not playing well and what I need to improve. I'm pretty motivated to fix things. There are guys out there who are not realistic; they don't like to take blame for certain things they don't do well. That's the nature of doubles sometimes: it's easy to find faults in your partner.
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In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.
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We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America.
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You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.
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You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.
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Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll band. I would say that at least 80 percent of my energy was involved with whatever band I was involved in.
