Andrei Codrescu Quotes
How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.
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It's important to make time for yourself.
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We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.
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[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.
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How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.
