Fred Astaire Quotes
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.
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My heroes were all in the theatre.
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A border collie saved me once when I was pinned under a horse in Colorado. And once when I went through the ice, one of my sled dogs saw me go under, and she got the rest of the team, and they pulled me out of 12 feet of water. I think that dogs offer the only form of unconditional love that's available to humans.
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I don't think 'my way or the highway' works, that mentality. And that's what the Tea Party has done: drawn a line in the sand. I'm sorry - that doesn't work in business, that doesn't work in your family, it certainly doesn't work in government and our Congress.
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This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them.
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Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true.
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I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
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The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.
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Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.
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I was doing publicity for 'The Getaway'; people were coming in from all over the world to do six-minute interviews.
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At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.
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The more I paint the more I like everything.
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When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too.
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I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.
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Disco is just jitterbug.