Phylicia Rashad Quotes
What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.
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I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
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We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers.
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We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
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General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.
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I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me know about that, and I'll be the first one to change it.
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In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a broad base of good people: kind folks who open their homes and hearts to people of all colors and creeds, married couples with happy homes and families who live nearby, public servants who put their lives on the line to fight fires in their communities.
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We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.
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Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset.
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I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.
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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
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I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.
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I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.
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I knew how touring was for 10 years, but it's completely different now that things are popping off.
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I just follow my heart.
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There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.
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In the Roman psyche the East had long been a place of danger, but also a place of plenty. The first Emperor Augustus famously said of Rome that he found a city built in brick but left it in marble – all that money had to come from somewhere. India was repeatedly described in Roman sources as a land of unimaginable wealth. Pliny the Elder complained that the Roman taste for exotic silks, perfumes and pearls consumed the city. ‘India and China and Arabia together drain our Empire. That is the price that our luxuries and our womankind cost us.’ It was the construction of the Via Egnatia and attendant road-systems that physically allowed Rome to expand eastwards, while the capture of Egypt intensified this magnetic pull. Rome had got the oriental bug, and Byzantium, entering into a truce with the Romans in 129 BC following the Roman victory in the Macedonian Wars that kick-started Gnaeus Egnatius’ construction of the Via Egnatia, was a critical and vital destination before all longer Asian journeys began.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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I feel like everyone should dye their hair a weird color. If you hate it, you can just dye it back.
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What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.
