Karel Capek Quotes
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I'm no producer's kid.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.
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My Only Boss is Money.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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When you like something, you find time to do it.
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The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
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Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
