Alice Dreger Quotes
So many times I've heard people say that the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples won't really change anything other than some legal and financial stuff. It's a dumb argument: those legal and financial effects matter.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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So many times I've heard people say that the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples won't really change anything other than some legal and financial stuff. It's a dumb argument: those legal and financial effects matter.
