Johann Lamont Quotes
In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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I just want to do my job.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
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In ancient China, self-government was highly developed both in community life and in personal life. The custom of mutual protection and assistance was widespread. The organization and regulations of local self-government were clearly defined and strictly applied. Individual self-control was even more strongly emphasized.
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We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make to our human community. The real work of your life is to figure out your function-your part in the whole-as soon as possible, and then get about the business of fulfilling it as only you can.
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If you tell me there's something I can't do, I'll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.
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I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters.
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In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun.
