Bessie Smith Quotes
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.
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I try to keep my professional life and my actual kid social life separate.
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It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.
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The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.
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Usually, when you get early versions of scripts, they are not very good. I found 'Borgen' amazing from the very first read-through because of how fast-paced and gripping it was. It felt more international because of the way it didn't dwell on the characters' personal lives as many Danish shows used to, but still, nobody thought it would travel.
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I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.
