Billy Porter Quotes
I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times a week, I want to be there.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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If you put Sen. Kerry in the White House, I think you are going to see that another terrorist attack happen … and I don't want to see another Sept. 11.
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When a kid graduates from being the youngest in a family to being a big brother or sister, there's an amazing transformation. They have to make a big effort, and when they accept their new position in the family, everybody breathes a sigh of relief. All of a sudden they seem bigger, and they seem smarter, and they feel good about it, too.
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Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value.
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Good walkers can go anywhere in these hospitable mountains without artificial ways.
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I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of art. But I don't think a work of art can actively reject the person who's looking at it or reading it.
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I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times a week, I want to be there.
