Kyan Douglas Quotes
Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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My father is a big fan of Amitabh Bachchan and always wanted to work or star in a remake of any of his film. But he didn't get the opportunity.
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The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the Rising Sun' or one of the other songs.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.
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When you have the chance to fight for victory or a podium finish, you have the motivation to push that extra bit out of yourself.
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Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos.
