Curtis Joseph Quotes
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I'm very self-critical.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.
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I listen to some Hank Williams before I go out. I tell some jokes. I have fun. I don't waste too much energy thinking about it - I like to save that all for the ring.
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A husband is like a fire. He goes out when unattended.
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We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it's gonna happen.
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I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget what ingredients to put in. But I do a lasagna that's a crowd-pleaser, and a good lemon drizzle cake, which I take to my mom's for the Sunday roast to fatten the family up.
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It's important for me to have my family close.
