Carl Kasell Quotes
My favorite time at NPR has been 'Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!' It was loads of fun and gave me a chance to meet and talk in person to the audiences that I felt I had known for so many years on the air.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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I am healthy and happy.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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Sometimes it gets a little too bubblegum for me, but what I do love about KPop videos is their attention to detail, and their choreography and dancing are always spot-on.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
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I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I was listening to Biggie Smalls and KRS-One, and so I basically lived the life by proxy. At the same time, I had the same problems and issues they were singing about right next to me, so it was easy to identify with it.
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I couldn't possibly have lived all the things that Ice-T on the records lived.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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I date, don't get me wrong. I'm not up here filing my fingernails on a Friday night. I want to find someone to share my life with.
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You got to expand the sound to expand your horizon and your fanbase.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.
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The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
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When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.
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If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.
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My favorite time at NPR has been 'Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!' It was loads of fun and gave me a chance to meet and talk in person to the audiences that I felt I had known for so many years on the air.
