Gloria Gaynor Quotes
People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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I had good years when I took steroids, and I had bad years when I took steroids. But no matter what, I shouldn't have done it, and for that, I'm truly sorry.
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However, the danger in socially unbalanced relationships is that the subjection of the woman temporarily calms the man's jealousy but also renders it more demanding. He ends up making his mistress live like those prisoners on whom light is shone day and night in order for them to be better watched. And things always end in tragedy.
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'I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.''No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.'
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The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.
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People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!
