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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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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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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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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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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With a lot of my comedic heroes, I'm trying to make sure that, wherever they might have gotten off-track a bit, I've learned that lesson.
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We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.
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A little showbiz never hurt anyone.
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I'm more relaxed and just feel like there's kind of a peace with myself.
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I'm a golfer not a history major.
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My least favorite aspect of shopping is shopping.
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The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.
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There's no way in the world that just because women turn the number 40, they're anything less than amazing. That's crazy. If anything, you're even more amazing!
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I hope I'm worthy in my dying. I hope I can maintain myself - that I wouldn't become pathetic and needy, and the worst part of myself come out in adversity. But I'm not afraid of it. It'd be such a silly thing to do! To ruin the life you have by fearing its ending.
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Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
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I give away thousands of paintings for free.
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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.
