Martin Luther Quotes
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
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You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.
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As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
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Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
