Alice B. Toklas Quotes
In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.
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Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.
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We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.
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I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
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Minimizing the role of sexual attraction in rape denies our responsibility for reinforcing men's addiction to female sexual beauty and then depriving men of what we've helped addict them to.
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When we give trust, we receive trust. And people who trust us pay attention to us.
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My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side.
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To be effective in Congress, you must focus. With so many issues and debates occurring at any given time, it is easy to spread yourself too thin and lose sight of your goal.
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I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.
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I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.
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I'm getting grumpier all the time.
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I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.
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We create refugees, and then our Democratic Party, together with the Republicans, who are also a party to this, are criminalizing them and sending them back, inhumanely.
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Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.
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There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads.
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If they had listened to me and had equal partnerships in China, the U.K., Germany and Brazil, maybe Yahoo in those countries could have become positioned like Yahoo Japan.
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Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.
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I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
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There are some problems that technology can't solve.
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Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is unfamiliar territory so, here and now, that's more difficult.
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In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.
