Alan King Quotes
My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
Barbara Castle
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
Kate Winslet
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
Salman Rushdie
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Mahalia Jackson
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
Olivia De Havilland
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
Magic Johnson
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
Gary Locke
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Warren Buffett
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
J. D. Vance
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
Tammy Blanchard
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
Lapo Elkann
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
Sam Brownback
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I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.
Karisma Kapoor
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
Irwin Winkler
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
Hari Kondabolu
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I have a couture body.
Carine Roitfeld
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
Nawal El Saadawi
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The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.
Sam Kean
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
Hannibal Buress
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
Beau Bridges
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Bill and his brother-in-law had shot a deer and drove it in to get processed. At a rest stop, a woman stops at the truck
Bill Engvall
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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.
Alan King