Melanie Griffith Quotes

When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?

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• People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course, and I'll go to London for my exams once a year. That way, I can devote more time to films.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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• I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
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• I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

  

  Daniel Clowes
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• When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
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• The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

  

  Barry Zito
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• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
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• The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

  

  J. Cole
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• I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
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• I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
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• When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
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• I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• When I'm getting a chance to do my job or make somebody's day, and be on stage where I love, and see all the fans having fun, you can't help but smile.

  

  Cole Swindell
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• The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

  

  Jonathan Kozol
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• Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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• For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing.

  

  John Perkins
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• When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?

  

  Melanie Griffith
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