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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'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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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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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."
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Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.
