Alphonse Karr Quotes
I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
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A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.
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Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox.
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The lake was always my orienting point when my dad was teaching me how to not get lost. The lake is east, so you'll always know that. It's a weird thing where you can kind of feel where you're at in Chicago, and when I was downtown, I was like, 'Oh, it feels more open over here. That must be east.' It felt like a little secret thing.
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I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
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Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
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I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
