Johnny Carson Quotes
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
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I become absolutely reclusive when I'm not working, to the point where I question whether I can actually do it again.
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As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?
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I think that I have never had the confidence to really aggressively get behind myself, and so what I do tends to be - I don't want to say 'sheepish,' but there is a sheepish quality to my ability to toot my own horn. I'm very Midwestern in that way. So I just do what I like to do, and what I think I do well is not very loud, necessarily.
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Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.
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When I turned 30, I had this epiphany that my life is my own and my choices are my own.
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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
