Edwin Meese Quotes
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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I am a Zionist.
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In college, I didn't perform so much, but when I graduated is when I discovered Second City. Then I realized, 'Oh, there are people who can focus on comedy and especially improvisational comedy and make a career out of it.'
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
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I got my Equity Card with my Broadway debut when I did 'Rent.' I was in high school, and I came to New York to do that show.
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As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
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All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.
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I agree with the British Legion that we have a responsibility to support our troops and support their families, particularly when we are asking people to do very difficult and dangerous things for our security.
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An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.
