Don Marquis Quotes
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.
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And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
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I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.
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It was a battered yellow Citroën 2CV which had had one careful owner but also three suicidally reckless ones.
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
