Maurice Chevalier Quotes
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.
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And this is yet another reminder that the world must unite, we must be together, regardless of nationality, or race, or faith, in fighting against the scourge of terrorism. We can - and will - defeat those who threaten the safety and security of people all around the world.
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I'm comfortable and confident about the future.
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I like Joaquin Phoenix. He's an amazing actor and he's so buff.
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If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
