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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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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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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When I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls.
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I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent.
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Aujourd'hui maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.
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Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.
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Happiness is the precursor to success.
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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.
