Lynn Good Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland.
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What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
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People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.
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If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
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All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.
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There weren't many women ahead of me.
