Mel Ferrer Quotes
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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
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We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.
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Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
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I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.
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People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.
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Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
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I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.
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We've written something like 900 songs in all.
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The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.
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To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.
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You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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He committed mayhem upon his person. He did everything to him that a man can do who is hampered with boxing gloves.
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I never went out looking for glory.
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Look at things... as they can be.
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Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life.
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My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.
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You can be a dynamic actor, but could never be a star if you never spend time with the media. That's something that I neglected to do.
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Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.
