Billie Piper Quotes
There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I have a couple of friends who have gone pro in sports, and if you are off by an inch, it's an entire mindgame for the next week. That's how it works: like, your whole world is based around an inch. Being an actor, your whole world turns on an inch, too.
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A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.
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The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.
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When those people get up at the Grammys and say, "I thank God", I always imagine God going, "Oh, don't, please don't thank me for that one. Please, oh, that's an awful one! Don't thank me for that - that's a piece of crap !"
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Sometimes it's hard to link domestic violence with murder because it's such a broad jump, except it is a domestically violent situation and probably the worst-case scenario in a domestically violent world.
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There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.
