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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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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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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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
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I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
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At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.
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You've gotta do what you like to do. If you do things you don't like to do, what sense does it make?
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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!
