Pythagoras Quotes
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
Aasif Mandvi -
There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
Sam Tsui -
I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
F. Sionil Jose -
If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
Kate McKinnon -
During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
Eavan Boland -
I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
Wayne Rogers -
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
Iris Johansen -
I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
Damian Marley
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
Gary Oldman -
Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
L. Neil Smith -
For me, I like to look presentable when I'm outside. I'm not going to come to the office with nasty hair and pajamas just because I stayed up all night - that's just who I am.
Yoon Ahn -
If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
Eddie Murphy -
I really like cable T.V.
Sally Field -
I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.
Oscar Pistorius
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A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!
Oswald Chambers -
The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and glamorous and you're going to get the lead and get the man at the end of the picture, or it's the opposite: you're a character actress, you're not attractive enough for the other role, and so you're playing the friend or the killer or the lesbian or the doctor or whatever.
Kathy Bates -
It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced me to speak my truth. I launched #1000BlackGirlBooks, a book drive to collect the stories of women of color.
Marley Dias -
Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.
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