Pauley Perrette Quotes
I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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I couldn't deal with a normal life.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it 'animal spirit.' And if people are feeling generally good about the future, they're more likely to spend money, to start new companies; companies are more likely to hire people, make investments.
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The only thing I command is respect.
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Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
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It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
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I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.
