Thomas Kean, Jr. Quotes

I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and give back. That's why I was a volunteer firefighter, that's why I worked in a homeless shelter. I always knew I'd give back, elective office or not.

Thomas Kean, Jr.

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Think how different it is to experience a word than a sound. When you're hearing a singer, you're controlled by the words, because you understand the language, you know what they're talking about, and you're forced to think about what they're talking about. But when you're hearing that same thing without a word, you're free to wander.

Jenny Scheinman

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Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

Robert J. Sawyer

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I think it is easier to hear my voice than see myself onscreen, particularly as the years progress. Watching myself onscreen becomes less and less enthralling.

Anjelica Huston

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My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

Michael Eric Dyson

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Once you are on court, it doesn't matter the way you look. It doesn't help you win points.

Ana Ivanovic

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My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

Steven Spielberg

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Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

Sidney Blumenthal

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Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

Derek Jacobi

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Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues.

August Wilson

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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

William Wycherley

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As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

Philip Yancey

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Nas always been my favorite rapper, but 50 Cent, he changed my way of thinking about music 'cause he was so detailed in his music, I knew that wasn't lying. I never felt Tupac that way; I never felt Biggie that way. I love Nas music, but I never felt and believed like, 'This is for real.' 'Cause I grew up that gangsta lifestyle.

Schoolboy Q

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