Conrad Ricamora Quotes
I created and opened a student-run coffeehouse in undergrad, and I loved it. I'd want to do that in the West Village.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
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The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.
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I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
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As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
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Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
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The great thing about a name like 'Cougar Town' is that you hear it once and you remember it forever. It's a very 'loud' title. But there's a connection to the word 'cougar' that means a lot of people are going to be turned off right away by the title alone without even giving the show a chance.
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I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.
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Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
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Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.
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To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.
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I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.
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We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
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I created and opened a student-run coffeehouse in undergrad, and I loved it. I'd want to do that in the West Village.
