Tom Brokaw Quotes

My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the '70s, in the '80s, and especially in the '90s.

Tom Brokaw

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On 'Catfish,' I'm a co-host and onscreen cameraman, maybe the second onscreen cameraman after Wes Bentley's turn in 'American Beauty,' which is funny and ironic. But before that, I'd been doing a lot of creative nonfiction.

Max Joseph

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I certainly would not deny that the Tea Party, the issues that they have looked at are certainly important to me as well... debt and deficit and recognition of the Constitution.

Matt Rosendale

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I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

Anita Roddick

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During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

Andy Warhol

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It was Labor Day weekend in 1983, and Dad hired me to run Mick's Lounge, a bar he co-owned, for $200 a week. The business was nearly bankrupt. But I said, 'Dad, I can fix it.' It was the most natural thing I'd ever done. It just made sense to me.

John Schnatter

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I have a couple of thick files about things that have gone wrong between people; I ought to write about them in the manner of a thriller. It would finally convince me that I was a real writer.

Amitava Kumar

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Everyone in the Middle East pretty much wants to come and be an American citizen, but pretty much everybody is angry with the U. S. foreign policy.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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I'll leave my house if I need to. Otherwise I'm super comfortable in my own space, in my own company.

Little Simz

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Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.

Jay Roach

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Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn't just spring out of the library shelves.

Diana Gabaldon

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Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

Dorothea Dix

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I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.

Dawn Steel

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