Emil Ferris Quotes
I was illustrating, and I was cleaning people's houses; I was doing whatever I could to take care of my kid as a single parent.
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.
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What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
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I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.
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I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.
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I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.
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Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
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I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
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I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
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I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.
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Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
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People have to do what they want to do.
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I'm committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.
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I once spoke to 9,000 people, but they managed to fit them all into a structure that resembled a Zeppelin hangar, so it was a contained space in which whatever laughter I generated could ricochet and hang around for a bit, encouraging others to join in.
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The American people are desperately seeking a Moses to lead them out of the wilderness, back to the land of milk and honey. They thought maybe Barack Obama was the one, and when he proved to be mortal after all, they were willing to listen to anyone new.
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My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.
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Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that.
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I was illustrating, and I was cleaning people's houses; I was doing whatever I could to take care of my kid as a single parent.
