Billy Rose Quotes
If the Russians ever decide to atom bomb us, they're certain to drop an especially large one on the plant in Pleasantville.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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I hate competition.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my 'Happy People' record. She said that she thought it represented the sprit of her husband. The license is from California. I get inspired every time I look at it.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.
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I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.
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They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.
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We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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Beauty is aspirational - an ideal that mortals approach but seldom attain.
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I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis.
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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
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My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
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So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.
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Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!
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If the Russians ever decide to atom bomb us, they're certain to drop an especially large one on the plant in Pleasantville.
