Franz Grillparzer Quotes
No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
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These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything.
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When you go back to the days when I was studying how to paint, some of the things that excited me most was to go into the Huntington Library and Gardens and to see the amazing pictures of the landed gentry.
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I had always been man enough to ruin myself without help.
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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I'm sure that growing up in the Midwest played a role in my chronic escapism. In fact, before I lived in France, I lived in Japan, England, and Bulgaria. I was determined to experience other places and cultures, particularly because I had the perception that I'd been cut off from these experiences as a child.
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No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.
