Arthur Ashe Quotes
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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I guess I don't believe that death is the end.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.
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Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.
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When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
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Every night, whisper 'peace' in your husband's ear.
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Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life
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The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started with a course that I co-taught at U.C. Berkeley journalism school back in 2003.
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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
