Jean-Claude Duvalier Quotes
All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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Islam means peace.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.
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I love yoga.
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I don't see a difference between the big screen and the small one. We are entertainers, and the medium doesn't matter.
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Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
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All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.
