Charlize Theron Quotes
Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it’s the thing that damages us the most.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.
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I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
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Every choice you make has an end result.
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You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
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Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
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I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.
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Tulsa was the kind of place where you could go to any door and borrow a cup of sugar. Everybody knew everybody. Truthfully, I don't even remember dealing with any racism in our town; we all got along.
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I think that's what makes characters interesting - when you paint a person into a corner, and you see what they do to get out of that corner. It's what makes drama drama.
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History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.
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You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.
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You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.
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Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it’s the thing that damages us the most.
