Sam Phillips Quotes
I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.
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My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
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I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.
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When I started Black Girls Code in 2011, there weren't any programs that had a foundation in communities of color to teach our kids about technology.
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Fight scenes are hard, no matter what you do. You're trying to make it look like you're hurting someone without hurting them. It doesn't matter how big and strong the guy is that you're fighting or how small and feeble someone is that you're fighting. You don't want to hurt them. You're working with them.
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I started 'SNL,' and I became the one who did impressions. I did that, but then I wanted to get an original character on, and that took a long time to get one on that stuck. And then I got Vinny Vedecci on - 'Oh great' - and then it took a couple more seasons to get Greg the Alien on. You have to have some patience.
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'Celebrate' is meant to be a guide to party planning and, as such, it has to cover the basics. If I were to write a cookery book, for instance, I would be compelled to say that, to make an omelette, you have to break at least one egg. Actually, that's not a bad idea. Or maybe I should write a sequel and call it 'Bottoms Up?'
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For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.
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I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.
