Pearl Bailey Quotes
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
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In L.A. summer's blistering heat, I've seen many girls wearing short skirts with Ugg boots. I like the boots, and the short skirts, but I've always wondered, don't their feet get hot?
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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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I love crop tops and love the way Taylor Swift teams them. Her style is relaxed; I can relate to it.
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I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.
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The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don't give them the resources that would help them.
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Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let our first object be the veneration of the Imperial Court, which vouchsafes its protection to the commonwealth, and let those who hold the reins of government consider the general good.
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In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
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I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.
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My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people.
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Being here: in a particular time and place. That is the existential position with particular implications for literature.
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At no point do the resurrection narratives in the four Gospels say, 'Jesus has been raised, therefore we are all going to heaven.' It says that Christ is coming here, to join together the heavens and the Earth in an act of new creation.
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I've read the books. God is not a moderate. There's no place in the books where God says, 'You know, when you get to the New World and you develop your three branches of government and you have a civil society, you can just jettison all the barbarism I recommended in the first books.'
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So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.
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All sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.
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I just don't think of myself as a movie star - I'm an actress.
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I love television. Television is a great medium; I'm fortunate enough to direct amazing television.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
