Jacques d'Amboise Quotes
I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.
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I'm very self-critical.
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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If I get any private time in my trailer, all of a sudden I'm doing sit-ups and push-ups.
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Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.
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Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and listen to the mixes, which I couldn't do in New York. I get to feel how a song works in combination with a sunset and a drive through the mountains.
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In the back of my head, I always thought it would be great to become an actress on a sitcom.
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My favorite thing about horror is that it attracts this great group of nuts, of which I include myself in. I was always kind of an oddball. I collected my fingernails, for instance.
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I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.
