Dawn Angeliqué Richard (Dawn Richard) Quotes
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I wanted to make good on the philosophy my mother drilled into us with all the subtlety of a Lady Gaga performance. I got it loud and clear. I would need to succeed, and then I could possibly be happy.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
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It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.
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I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now.
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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.
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As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in.
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As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness - the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.
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But to such a man as Schopenhauer,—one who considered five sixths of the population to be knaves or blockheads, and who had thought out a system for the remaining fraction,—to such a man as he, the question of esteem, or the lack thereof, was of small consequence. He cared nothing for the existence which he led in the minds of other people. To his own self he was true, to the calling of his destiny constant, and he felt that he could sit and snap his fingers at the world, knowing that Time, who is at least a gentleman, would bring him his due unasked.
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I'm not a very open person.
