Cory Booker Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar to my screenplay for Zach Braff the Movie.
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When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from readers who were disgusted with the depiction of monotheistic religion. I've also heard from readers who were upset because my portrayal of faith did not adhere to their specific doctrines. Fortunately, I have high risk tolerance.
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When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.
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I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.
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I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
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Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.
