Philomena Kwao Quotes
Fat is fat. This goes back to the word 'plus.' We describe things. We are humans, and we need to describe things.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
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I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.
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I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
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I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.
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I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.
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The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.
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In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
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Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
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I don't care if it's a dollar or two dollars. If I'm governor, people should have skin in the game.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
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All truth has to be expressed in sentences... the type of sentence in nature is a flash of lightning.
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Fat is fat. This goes back to the word 'plus.' We describe things. We are humans, and we need to describe things.
