Walter Matthau Quotes
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The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.
Randy Jackson
Breakfast Club
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
Karan Mahajan
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
Rafael Palmeiro
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A great painting is a great painting.
Larry Poons
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
Felix Baumgartner
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
Rachel Zoe
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
Banks
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
Walter Scott
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All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
Warren Farrell
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
Zooey Deschanel
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
Mahershala Ali
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Ronda Rousey changing the game for MMA, you know? Dana White said he'd never have a girl in the Octagon. Ronda Rousey comes along, and she's the main event any time she's on. The women, I feel, in the UFC are stealing the show.
Becky Lynch
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I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
Salman Rushdie
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Buddhism … is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or 'loyal opposition' to the culture in which it is involved.
Alan Watts
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The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.
William Falconer
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
Walter Matthau
