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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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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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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Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.
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The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.
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Even a correct decision is wrong when it was taken too late.
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Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
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I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.
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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.
