Emo Philips Quotes

I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, 'I'm going to mop the floor with your face.' I said, 'You'll be sorry.' He said, 'Oh, yeah? Why?' I said, 'Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well.'

Emo Philips

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It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Broadway is a very different kind of place. It's kind of like Nashville in that there's a certain amount of people that are involved, and those people are what run it.

John Mellencamp

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I grew up a huge jock, a lot of basketball and football. We had a pond in my back yard growing up, and we played a lot of hockey, too. I loved to score goals.

Andy Grammer

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In snowboarding, I've always looked at really strong competitors through a lens of gratitude rather than envy in the sense that the better my competition is, the more it forces me to work hard, focus, and be better myself if I want to succeed, which I do.

Amy Purdy

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I don't know much about pop music, and we sample music from all different cultures. I was trained in West African dance, so my sense of rhythm when I move is obviously informed by that, and I obviously sing in Portuguese.

Sophie Hawley-Weld

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I always want to make sure we protect our soldiers' pay if there is a shutdown of any kind.

Trent Franks

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My view of the alt-right was that it was a big tent.

Mike Cernovich

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For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

Mike McCurry

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It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Mick Jagger

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I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.

Mitch Hedberg

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History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.

Clint Smith

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The twenties are a deceptively challenging-slash-painful time. I'm just glad to be out of that phase.

Claire Danes

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