Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
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My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.
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It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.
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Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
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My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
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What's important to me is people just being people.
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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I believe that Bitcoin is going to change the way that everything works. I want entrepreneurs to tell me how its going to change. Build the equivalent of an Iron Man suit with Bitcoin.
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When you have your passion, you never even think about other things. It's tunnel vision. You go until you get it.
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We are a lot more alike than we are different and it's important to remember that.
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I've auditioned for animation stuff for a long time; that's a tough field to crack into. I don't think I have the strongest voice. I don't have a theater-trained voice or a radio voice, but I think I make good character choices.
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Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men’s powerlessness. Too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us--which is really just love for ourselves.
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One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don't seem like one of the gods from Olympus. I seem like someone who was lucky enough to be let into Olympus.
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It's not the having, it's the getting.
