Benjamin Banneker Quotes
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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I certainly support civil unions.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.
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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
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When I was younger, I went through a lot of different phases. One day I'd be punk rock, and the next I would be tomboyish, and then I would be really girly. I was so weird. My two best friends and I were just crazy and goofy!
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I'm a big French fry girl. I try to avoid them, but sometimes you just need to indulge, so I go for it!
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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
