Nellie Melba Quotes
You won’t be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don’t worry! It’s a good sign!
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.
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I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'
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It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.
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When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.
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The fans make the person a star.
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I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.
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Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.
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I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.
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Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.
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Mary Poppins herself had flown away, but the gifts she had brought would remain for always..
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Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.
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It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.
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When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brainthat is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious--to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.
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It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.
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You won’t be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don’t worry! It’s a good sign!
