Ethel Waters Quotes
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Women drive box office.
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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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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'
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In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
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The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
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Americans overwhelmingly believe that Americans who want to do jobs, who are looking for work, should have a fair opportunity, if not a preference, to do that work.
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Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my day I was told women didn't go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn't.
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I love having the Olympic Channel app on my phone because I can watch old gymnastics videos any time.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
