Eddie Cantor Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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I started finding hearts in things - whether it was like, a tree I was passing, a straw wrapper on the ground; I think the heart has one continuous line, which is very powerful.
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Because it doesn't happen like this, where we're having an interview and it sort of turns into a conversation-and a quite gratifying one, because it's all about me.
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Shaw's relations with women have always been gallant, coy even. The number he has surrendered to physically have been few – perhaps not half a dozen in all – the first man to have cut a path through the theatre and left it strewn with virgins.
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I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.
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The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
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All women are natural born espionage agents.
