Jacqueline Emerson Quotes
I never dreamed that I would hear 10,000 people screaming when I stepped out onto a stage. Well, that's not entirely true. I dreamed about it but in a performing-on-the-stage-at-Staples-Center-or-Madison-Square-Garden context. But never in a I'm-in-a-movie-that-hasn't-even-come-out-yet one.

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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.
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While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.
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It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application of the laws. The current laws are an obscenity. More black men are locked up for using pot than white folk are for far more serious crimes.
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'Starman' was one of my favorite movies growing up.
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We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images we project really do have resonance. It's the reason why I don't use the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain't gonna give it to them.
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I never dreamed that I would hear 10,000 people screaming when I stepped out onto a stage. Well, that's not entirely true. I dreamed about it but in a performing-on-the-stage-at-Staples-Center-or-Madison-Square-Garden context. But never in a I'm-in-a-movie-that-hasn't-even-come-out-yet one.