Jean Monnet Quotes
Make men work together show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
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I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.
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Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
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Make men work together show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.
