Ken Mehlman Quotes
I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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God does arithmetic.
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We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
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I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!
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I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
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Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.
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People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.
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You're smarter than TV. So what?
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I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.
