Paul Valery Quotes
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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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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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.
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My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are even some moms who think it's cheesy. It's a role you can't prepare for; it's a role you don't get paid to do, but it is the most rewarding role, and to me, it's been the most fulfilling.
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I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.
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I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
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A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety and pain.
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When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know?
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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I talked to Carolyn Dawn Johnson about doing a duet with her a few times, and we just haven't gotten it done.
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
