Maxine Waters Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.
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I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.
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I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
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I'm so proud of this connection that I've made with these young people.
