Mick Jagger Quotes
I don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
Quotes to Explore
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
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I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
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I'm one of those people who really liked high school. I know that might not be a popular thing to say, but it was fun, and I enjoyed my friends.
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I think I would have had trouble living with someone who didn't know what it was like to be an actor.
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Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.
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I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.
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'Swingers' was a little closer to what my real experience was. 'Crazy Eyes,' whoever's experience that is, I'm telling you what, that was one heck of a ride.
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The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.
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I don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
