AJ Lee Quotes
I want people to know where I come from. I think I have come really far from that, and I did it on my own. It's sort of the American dream to come from absolutely nothing and to succeed while still doing something that you love. Not compromising yourself in any way. I hope I'm making Jersey proud in that way.
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
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Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
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I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.
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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
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I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.
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I can't believe that I was one of those people who said 'I'm not really a sci-fi fan.'
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I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.
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People have to do what they want to do.
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If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity.
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If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.
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You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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What we must do is to sit down together as reasonable people and make our government do what is right, and stop doing what may be wrong-headed or wasteful.
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I want people to know where I come from. I think I have come really far from that, and I did it on my own. It's sort of the American dream to come from absolutely nothing and to succeed while still doing something that you love. Not compromising yourself in any way. I hope I'm making Jersey proud in that way.
