Kyan Douglas Quotes
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Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
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It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.
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Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.
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I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
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Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
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Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.
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Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.
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The business model - where books can be returned, and where a 50% sell-through is considered acceptable - is archaic and wasteful. Writers get small royalties, little say in how their books are marketed and sold, and simple things like cover and title approval are unheard of unless you're a huge bestseller.
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I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.
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Then mimick'd my voice with satyrical sneer,And sent me away with a Flea in my ear.
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The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.
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In his private dealings he was just. He treated friends and strangers, the rich and poor, the powerful and weak, with equity, and was beloved by the common people for the affability with which he received them, and listened to their complaints....
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'Yes,' I answered you last night;'No,' this morning, Sir, I say.Colours seen by candlelight,Will not look the same by day.
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I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
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That was the theme of the Million Mom March: I don't need a brain - I've got a womb.
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Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.
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'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's your Facebook profile, there's your email inbox. And all of these sort of multiple instances of you are operating simultaneously and in parallel.
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You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.
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New Orleans is still the place where you find out that you have a doppelganger and feel lucky - but somehow unsurprised - to learn that his name is Mad Bottom.
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A business man once stated that there is nothing so practical as a good theory.
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We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives.
