Dorothy Dandridge Quotes
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On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
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A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.
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So if I'm 36, and I have my 19-year-old self, I'm pulling him to the side and saying, 'Listen bruh, throwing on your Timbs and your fitted hat and strolling campus trying to get a girl to say yes, or going to the club hoping you bring a girl home, that's not the way to go about healthy relationships. You need to step back.'
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'
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Every time I feel like something is missing from a dish, I think, 'Oh, I know, I'll add a pinch of dry ginger.' If it's not salt and it's not vinegar, it's probably missing dry ginger.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.
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It's one thing to evaluate a woman's work. it's another thing to say, 'Your hair was this; your makeup was that.'
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If I were white, I could capture the world.
