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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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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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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I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.
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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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The message of 'Star Trek,' if there is one, seems to be that we should try to live up to the very best that we're capable of.
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I'm a big proponent of accountability.
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In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
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While a person dies every day during the eight or more hours in which he or she functions as a commodity, individuals come to life afterward in their spiritual creations. But this remedy bears the germs of the same sickness: that of a solitary being seeking harmony with the world.
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He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.
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I'd like to get the word out there, the word has to be spread.
