James A. Garfield Quotes
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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'Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.
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Touring is my religion. Music is all-encompassing - my religion.
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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.
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In 'Rocky' and 'Paradise Alley,' my dad played very expressive characters, and he was out there.
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Ideas control the world.
