Mary Todd Lincoln Quotes
I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast.
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
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The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.
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The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
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I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
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We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread.
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I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
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The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.
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No major entitlement, once it has been implemented, has ever been unwound.
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Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.
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I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then.
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I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.
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I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
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If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.
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I've enjoyed being a single person, particularly because I'm travelling a lot. It would be hard to maintain a relationship - so I've really not tried.
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For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
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In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.
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It's not like I am working with the great innovators of all time, but at the same time, they are my friends.
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......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
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I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast.
