Steven Wright Quotes

I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

Steven Wright

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I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

Angelina Jolie

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It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.

Sonia Sotomayor

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I lead a very boring, normal life.

Stockard Channing

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I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.

Sigourney Weaver

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When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.

Tom Stoppard

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I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy; my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.

Romesh Gunesekera

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Scaling back the U.S. fleet of 14 nuclear-armed submarines to eight would maintain a robust deterrent at sea while generating billions in savings and easing pressure on the Navy's shipbuilding budget.

Mike Quigley

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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthur

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If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. It's the people who are always on the brink of crisis who don't hit bottom who are in trouble.

Anne Enright

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I don't think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

Suzanne Vega

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Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.

Tibor Fischer

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Hillary is the Mitt Romney of 2016, where she has very little in common with the average person. She doesn't drive herself anywhere, she doesn't put on her own makeup, she doesn't cook her own meals, and she doesn't research her own materials. She has very little in common with the average woman.

Kellyanne Conway

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