Joan Collins Quotes
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What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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The business of America is business.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!
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There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.
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Thought makes reality.
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I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
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Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
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I love black truffles. I love white truffles.
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My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.
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Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly.
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My fans were probably the most therapeutic thing for me.
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Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.
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An NBA game in L.A., the Lakers - I'm a Clipper fan - it's to be seen as much as seeing the game.
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I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.
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If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
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I would say take any work you can get. Don't pass on something if it's a commercial. Take it. Work really does lead to other work. Especially if you're just starting out, work begets work.
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I've known since day one of working on 'Spring Awakening' - back in 1999 - that it was special.
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On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.
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It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.
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I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.
