Pearl Bailey Quotes
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.
Quotes to Explore
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.
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You measure a government by how few people need help.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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Anything you want to know, you go to Quora and get it. And at the same time, give people a platform that is easy to use for sharing the knowledge.
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The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.
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We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.
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I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.
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There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.
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You got these $10,000-a-plate dinners and Golden Circles Clubs. I think when the average voter looks at that, they rightly feel they're locked out of the process. They can't attend a $10,000 breakfast and they know that those who can are going to get the kind of access they can't imagine.
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Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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Jay Z wasn't great when 2pac and Biggie was alive.
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We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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I think, going into a room for an audition, the best thing you can do is represent who you are specifically as an individual and what you can bring to a creative process in a room - as opposed to being worried about 'where you fit' - because that's really their job to decide where you fit. Your job is to just present the best 'you' you can.
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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
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We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.
