Francis Arinze Quotes
There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I was always taken in and out of school.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
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I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
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I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.
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Thank God for product and blusher.
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Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.
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In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
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I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then – because they got fired – the record company wouldn't do anything for me.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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I like to carry a concealer palette that has a green, a yellow, and a tan color. I like to carry the green one because when I have a pimple, it's good to use that to contrast the red. Then you put the yellow over it, and it helps it disappear.
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War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow.
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There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.
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Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.
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No one fulfills himself fully. What is fulfilling oneself? Advancing as one can.
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I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.
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There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.
