Fred Astaire Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
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The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
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I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.
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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
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You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.
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You should never ask actors about politics.
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Napoleon might have understood Dwight D. Eisenhower, who fought not even a hundred and fifty years after Waterloo. But I don't think Eisenhower could even begin to wrap his mind around drone warfare, spy satellites, or any of the technology that now defines the security of our world.
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Music reflects the time that it's being made in, and so certainly, the music that's being made in 1986 by a 14-year-old kid will reflect some magic of 1986 for him if he's an inspired and creative musician.
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Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
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I don't make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.
