Joy Covey Quotes

Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep liberal arts background. So we'd go to lunch and people would talk about their favorite seventeenth-century poets, and I'd be thinking, 'Could I even name five poets? From any century?'

Joy Covey

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There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.

Jennifer Granholm

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I wouldn't wear really short dresses anymore - just don't feel comfortable in them.

Andie MacDowell

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The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.

Robert Sternberg

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As an individual doing a podcast, you don't get even remotely rich. It's not something to do for money.

Jeff Garlin

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I get really frustrated if people don't smile.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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The food was interesting. My background is Russian, so cheese and potatoes are my love. There was plenty of that. And fried cheese! It is really, really, really good. And really, really, really bad for you. It's like an artery on a plate.

Michelle Trachtenberg

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Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Jordan Spieth

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When they told me I couldn't sit on the Senate floor with an iPad - that the technology wasn't even permitted - I breathed deep and knew that I was going to have to start pushing.

Cory Booker

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Nobody wants to make a bad 'Flight of the Navigator' remake. There's just no interest. We're going to do it if it's good.

Colin Trevorrow

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When you play a great team like the Patriots, you can only kick so many field goals and stay in the game.

Brock Osweiler

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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

Peter McWilliams

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I thought I would be a teacher; I think my eventual goal was to be the principal of my old high school.

Tyler Labine

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