Don Mattingly Quotes
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.
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The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high socialites. Paparazzi didn't care about Janis Joplin.
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It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.
