Gloria Gaynor Quotes
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.
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The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.
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There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.
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If there are no consequences now for breaking the prohibition on chemical weapons, it will be harder to muster an international consensus to ensure that Hezbollah and other terrorist groups are prevented from acquiring or using these weapons themselves.
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I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.
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My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.
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The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.
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I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.
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I've never really fit in anywhere.
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Losing a parent is a hard thing... I often sit here and think it would be great if mum and dad were alive and had a chance to see their grandkids grow up.
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You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.
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I think I sound like Barry White.
