Billy Porter Quotes
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
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For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being.
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Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
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I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?
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I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.
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It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.
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L'innocence, le plus souvent, est un bonheur et non pas une vertu.
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I do 'sissy with a heart of gold' really well.
