Jayne Mansfield Quotes
My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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There's depth in my comedy.
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Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
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I choose to express myself.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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You have to be resilient.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.
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My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.
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There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.
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What I remember about being painted was a very severe atmosphere. I remember her intensity and sharp glance.
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You gotta call it out first; it always has to be called out when we need social change, but this is how social change happens: you call it out. People had to call out child labor. People had to call out, 'Hey time's up; we need to vote. We live in this country.' People had to call out 'time's up' on enslaving people, you know.
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My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.
