Corin Tucker Quotes
I've played 'The Wizard of Oz' for my kids, but by today's standards, it seems really long. I don't know if there's enough action in it for them. And there's the whole black-and-white sequence in the beginning where she's on a farm. It takes a while to get to the colored part, and then it gets more exciting, and things start to happen.
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A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
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Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.
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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.
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Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.
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Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
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I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.
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I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
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I love black truffles. I love white truffles.
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She's lovely, great. She was very friendly. She was just like a mum to us.
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Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.
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There's always a dinner to go to. There're always loads of people around. I was having fun working with my friends. For a while it all just kind of rolled together in a great way.
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Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.
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Turkey's economy is powerful enough to tackle tough times.
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I've played 'The Wizard of Oz' for my kids, but by today's standards, it seems really long. I don't know if there's enough action in it for them. And there's the whole black-and-white sequence in the beginning where she's on a farm. It takes a while to get to the colored part, and then it gets more exciting, and things start to happen.
