Penelope Spheeris Quotes
When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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Honestly, I don't think we see ourselves as stars. That's what the media tags us as. I personally don't think too much about it.
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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
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Making money from money is like aerobatics.
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I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.
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I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.
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When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.
