Cherie Lunghi Quotes
I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mother's married friends and think, 'Why does she put him down in public?' or, 'Why is he so rude to her?' It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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I know I look super young.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people.
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I think a cyber-terrorism attack is overblown, though the threat exists. I think al Qaeda and other groups are more interested in symbolic terrorism, like what they did to the World Trade Center - suicide bombers or something that really has an effect and is meaningful to people.
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I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.
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I was an English major.
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Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.
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I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mother's married friends and think, 'Why does she put him down in public?' or, 'Why is he so rude to her?' It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.
