Dawn Powell Quotes
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
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What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.
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I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.
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My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
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I can only focus on doing what's right.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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Different people have different views of the Taj but it would be enough to say that it has a life of its own that leaps out of marble, provided you understand that it is a monument of love. As an architectural masterpiece, nothing could be added or substracted from it.
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The more time goes by, the more things will happen to you in your life. And the ability to be positive throughout and look for the good in people, look for the good in situations - it's so important.
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I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do.
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I did Internet dating for a while, and that is rife with horrible dating stories.
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Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.