Merry Clayton Quotes
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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With competition everyone has to try harder.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
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What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
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Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
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You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.
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I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.
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On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.
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I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.
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The free market promotes self-worth, self-sufficiency, shared values, and honest dealings, which enhance the individual, the family, and the community. It discriminates against no race, religion, or gender.
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Carole King is one of my dearest friends. Were like family.
