Keke Palmer Quotes
I sometimes want to do totally different roles. I don't always want to play 'wholesome.'
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
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One thing about Foster the People is that it's taking pieces of a lot of different genres of music and kind of melding them together.
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In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today, to let her mirror my thoughts and feelings.
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You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
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If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.
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I sometimes want to do totally different roles. I don't always want to play 'wholesome.'
