Louise Brooks Quotes
Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
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When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
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Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product.
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Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.
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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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I am always happy to use my song and dance training.
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If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn't get to speak to anyone that's there, and we definitely wouldn't get to serve them food.
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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
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Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.
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Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
