Esther Williams Quotes
Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.
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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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I need to have better knife skills... for vegetables.
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I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.
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It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
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There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.
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You can love me or hate me and disagree with me, but you sure as hell know where I stand.
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When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.
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Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.
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He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
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I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.
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I have a way of just being ice and just cooling situations and making things work.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.
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Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.
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The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.
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Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
