Desmond Tutu Quotes
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
La India -
I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
Ira Glass -
Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
Laura Linney -
There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
Fionn Whitehead -
I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
Gary Cole -
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
R. W. Apple, Jr.
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You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
Ulrich Beck -
The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
Adam Grant -
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
Harrison Ford -
I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
Damien Chazelle -
Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
Mahesh Babu -
I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.
Val McDermid
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
F. Murray Abraham -
My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.
Samantha Stosur -
If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
Yossi Sarid -
Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.
Orison Swett Marden -
When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
Mahesh Babu -
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
Gaston Bachelard
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There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
Pearl S. Buck -
I just want to whup the man in front of me, play after play.
Jason Pierre-Paul -
I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.
Demi Moore -
The result of becoming tolerant towards sin is that we become intolerant towards God and His Word.
R.J. Rushdoony -
I was in that ultimate moment of terror that is the beginning of life. It is nothing. Simple, hideous nothing. The final truth of all things is that there is no final Truth. Truth is what's transitory. It's human life that is real.
Paddy Chayefsky -
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
Desmond Tutu