Fred Astaire Quotes
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
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Broadway is really my life.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.
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If one bird foraging in a flock on the ground suddenly takes off, all other birds will take off immediately after, before they even know what's going on. The one who stays behind may be prey.
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This one is for the boys in the polos Entrepreneur niggas & the moguls
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When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.
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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
