Chita Rivera Quotes
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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By 1988, I was living in New York myself.
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The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.
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You can never get enough of what you don't want.
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The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
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I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.
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You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
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I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.
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I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.
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You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.
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I think that debut albums are supposed to sound sort of raw. You don't want to record 'Sgt. Pepper's' as your first album, because where do you go from there?
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I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!
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For the average person, many folks who don't have health insurance initially, they're going to have to make some choices. And they might end up having to switch doctors, in part because they're saving money.
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I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching.
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We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
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I have a gruff side. This is not exactly news... At the same time, anyone who wants to judge me for this can walk a mile in my moccasins. And then we'll talk.
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It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of institutional survival, so much so that the state has gone to extraordinary lengths to punish and/or threaten to punish anyone who so much as tiptoes across the informational line.
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Who you are is of greater importance than what you do.
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I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread.
