Les Baxter Quotes
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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I've been training quite hard.
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.
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I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.
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My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.
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I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.
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Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.
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Back in my 20s, I was playing poker to avoid living. I wasn’t very satisfied with life. I used to play in a big game in Archway. And we’d play as much as we possibly could and for as much money as we had, and that went on for a couple of years.
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I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion - then she lies.
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What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Livia, nostri coniugii memor vive, ac vale!
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It could never happen in Denmark, Danish people are much more calm than those further south.
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Not if the butcher had become a butcher simply in order to have a chance of murdering the baker. One must always look one step behind, my friend.
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There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.
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My comfort zone has always been in an ensemble-type atmosphere.
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With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to really let go of that stuff.
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When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.
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I moved to Harvard in 1998, and in 2000 the first kidney exchange in the United States was done at a hospital nearby. I started to think, 'Gee, there might be a way where I could help organize it, make it easier for people to find kidneys.'
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I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.
