Addison Mizner Quotes
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
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I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
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It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
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Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.
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I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
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At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a house. I live in New York City, and I'm still renting. My own personal narrative shows that it is possible to live a respectable life without ever having owned a home.
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An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
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In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.
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The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
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I think 2020 can still be my time.
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My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.
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I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.
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New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
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I'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist.
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In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
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Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in the reasoning intelligence of man. Science has to pluck the blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge, unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical imaginings of faith or not.
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I would love to get shredded or whatever you want to call it, but at the same time, I really enjoy treating myself to a cheat meal more than once a week. I'll eat a piece of bread, or I'll drink a beer, and I'll have fun with my friends. For me, it's really more about being healthy than it is about gaining 40 lbs. of muscle.
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Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.
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The internal sexism within womanhood is very predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be successful. There's a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable, because that's the formula that works. On an executive level. On a power level. And it's not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.
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...talking as though the Standard Oil Company was the smallest thing he owned.
