Bing Crosby Quotes
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.
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I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
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'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.
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I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.
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Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
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With the depth of the women's game, the entertainment it gives, and the work we put into it, I think equal pay is right.
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When it comes down to it, I'm thinking about football all the time. When I'm on the golf course, I'm thinking about it. It's never out of your brain.
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...golf appeals to the idiot in us, and the child. … Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
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Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.
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My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.
