Lucille Ball Quotes
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
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I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.
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I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
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Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
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Writing turned a spotlight on the high, dim Sierras of speech; writing was the visualization of acoustic space. It lit up the dark. (p. 14)
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Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.
