David Niven Quotes
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
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I'm a '90s baby.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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Whatever show is on, I dress in that designer's clothes. Some of them were totally unwearable.
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Well, you get my point: You've go one life with zero guarantees, so you do your best, adapt if possible, and keep on breathing. I recommend striving for happiness, but many opt for duty and responsibility. Mileage varies.
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I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.
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What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
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I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.
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Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.
