Clarence Thomas Quotes
For a time we wondered why our real father didn't come and rescue us, but we had long since accepted our fate by the time we finally met him.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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I am healthy and happy.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.
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I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.
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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
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One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
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Yul had simply launched himself at the guy from some distance away, and body-checked him at full speed, stopping on a dime in midair as he transferred all of his energy into the target. 'Conservation of momentum,' he announced, 'it's not just a good idea-it's the law!'
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For a time we wondered why our real father didn't come and rescue us, but we had long since accepted our fate by the time we finally met him.
