Joanna Coles Quotes
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I would like my kids to study well.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
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I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.
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I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.
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With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.
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The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart is once turned into a conformity with the mind of God. when we feel our will conformed to His will, we shall then presently perceive a spirit of adoption within ourselves, teaching us to say, 'Abba, Father.'
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When young people see movies like 'Gandhi 'or 'JFK,' there is an element of romanticization of these powerful people, and young people often feel a huge distance between their own lives and the lives of these social-change heroes. But the Panthers were flawed-up people from the streets, so it's easier to identify with them.
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Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
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I did musical theatre for about four years. One time, I did six shows in one year whilst juggling school.
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I've always said that when I retire, I'll decide in the training room and not after a fight.
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Snapchat is a really intimate medium.
