Keala Settle Quotes
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'
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'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
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I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.
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Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
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Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.
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I always wanted to be on a sitcom.
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All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.
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Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.
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I know it's a cliche, but I see myself as a citizen of the world. I was brought up in Switzerland by German and Turkish parents but I've very much grown up in San Francisco. I have a European sense of aesthetic, but I'm also deeply steeped in the notion of change and entrepreneurship that is associated with Silicon Valley.
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That stupid fucking kid! That stupid fucking kid! Look what he's done to me!
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I'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a TV show - our hours are roughly 10-6:30, so I have to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. So I'll sometimes write fiction for an hour or two in the evenings, or several hours on the weekend afternoons - unless I'm actively writing a script for the show I'm working on, in which case there's no time to write fiction at all.
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When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.
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I have a lot of cultures within me - I'm basically chop suey.
