Jim Lehrer Quotes
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.
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I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.
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In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.
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I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
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I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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The thing I like to do most is shop.
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Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.
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Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.
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It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.
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I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.
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Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
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Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.
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The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.
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Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten.
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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
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Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.
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My conscience is clear.
