Henry David Thoreau Quotes
How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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A number of people in the United States, almost everyone, is using plastic cards to pay for things, but it's extremely difficult to accept these cards. So let's make it's easy and take more and more of the friction out as we can.
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I can't imagine that I will ever be on anything like 'M*A*S*H' again.
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I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.
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There's a natural antipathy on the part of the voters to a continuation of globalization as we know it. It's simply a code word today for bad trade deals that disadvantage the American people.
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When you start just focusing exclusively on trying to tear the other person down instead of what you are going to do on behalf of the American people to deal with this economy, then that's not serving Democrats, that's not serving Republicans, that's not serving anybody.
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How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
