John Glenn Quotes
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
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The apple of knowledge is not far from here. As soon as you've eaten it, you'll know as much as I do. But be careful not to make any mistakes: most of the apples hanging from that tree are enveloped in a thick skin. If you taste it, you will be brought low, beneath man; the inner part of the fruit will bring you up to the level of an angel.
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When I was little, I always wanted to grow up to be like Jessalyn Kincaid and Vanessa Severo. They showed me how much joy performing can give you.
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I made a choice before I lost my legs that I was going to live the best life possible and that I wasn't going to let this slow me down - and that choice has kept me moving forward.
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Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.
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The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.
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I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.
