Ernst Lubitsch Quotes
I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.
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I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.
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Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.
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I think I've been inspired by Chris and his ability to be raw and genuine and admit flaws and let it be whatever it is. That's something I'm trying to do, too, is just be real... That way ends up being very healing with people.
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Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
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Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.
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Using leverage to cure the problems of too much leverage is not homeopathy, it is denial. The debt crisis is not a temporary problem, it is a structural one. We need rehab.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
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We have to face the fact that meaningful gun control has to be a part of homeland security.
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Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.
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If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.
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I remember really loving the CoverGirl ads when I was younger - there was something very cool about how they always put the girls in white. It looked so clean.
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My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.
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You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.
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We should not go to the people and say, 'Here we are. We come to give you the charity of our presence, to teach you our science, to show you your errors, your lack of culture, your ignorance of elementary things.' We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn at that great source of wisdom that is the people.
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On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse.
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Once I'm committed, I'm unafraid of the outcome.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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I think very often producers are really trying to repeat things. When they hear something in the new songs that they recognize as being a bit like something that was a success on a previous record, they're inclined to encourage that.
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I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount.
