Desmond Tutu Quotes
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Quotes to Explore
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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I've been very lucky.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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When people are getting on me for being at a Ranger game at 7 o'clock at night, they don't see what I've done between yoga, Pilates, workout, thrown, ran, done all my work by 5 o'clock, ate, and then I went to the game. Nobody is seeing that. Nobody is commenting on that.
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One thing I don't personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I'm doing more carefully. I'm not going to be acting no fool.
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To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. But it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously than it does.
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At the surface, many people's goals are to lose weight, tone up, feel better, etc. But superficial goals get superficial results that usually fade. Dig a little deeper, and the 'why' is usually unveiled: to be more confident, to be more happy, to feel sexy again.
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
