Fred Astaire Quotes

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

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• Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Up
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• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Doing
  • Start
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• I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • City
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  • New

• If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Earth
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• The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.

  

  Laura Leighton
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• Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.

  

  Ice T
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• Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.

  

  Kate Christensen
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• Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

  

  Sam Graves
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  • Taken

• I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

  

  Gary Oldman
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  • Kid
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• I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Me
  • Drinking
  • Stopped

• Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

  

  Hank Azaria
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• It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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• I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Always
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• I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.

  

  Taylor Schilling
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• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
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• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

  Harold Prince
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• People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • People
  • Up
  • Truth

• I don't use recurring characters. I do get very interested in my characters while I'm working with them, and I find the process of fitting them into a story, and allowing them to create the story around themselves, fascinating. But no, I don't imagine they have a life outside of what I make for them.

  

  Jessica Abel
  • Life

• The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • People

• I won't be training at 60 years old, because I want to do something else in my life.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Life
  • Training

• I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.

  

  Kristy Swanson
  • Guy
  • House
  • Light

• At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.

  

  Anne Carson
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• The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

  

  Fred Astaire
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