Lewis B. Hershey Quotes
On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
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Well if you reduce religion to social work, so does USAID produce...do all that. Actually, a secular organization, actually rather more convincingly. Most of the great philanthropist of the united states have been atheists...doesn't prove that atheism is correct.
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The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.
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I was raised by a single dad, and I've always kind of liked things that are typically more guy-oriented.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.
