Kevyn Aucoin Quotes
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
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There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.
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In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.
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Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
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Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
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I don't want to be embarrassed when I go to see something on the screen. I don't want to listen to foul language, watch a lot of violence or see something immoral. I prefer stories with sensitivity and family values; films that strive to lift you up to a higher place in life.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
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To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success.
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Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.
