Danielle de Niese Quotes
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My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
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At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
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I've never personally been anorexic.
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When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of.
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I have a noble body. It adapts to all I ask of it.
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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
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'He’s a fair man.'I looked at him, startled.'I said fair,' he repeated. 'Not likable.'I kept quiet. His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.
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I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God - a union of two totally different kinds of beings.
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Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Self-pity is not as sterile as we suppose. Once we feel its mere onset, we assume a thinker's attitude, and come to think of it, we come to think!
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I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.
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At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.
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I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.
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I love Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik.
