Eva Longoria Quotes
When people call me a sex icon, it's flattering but it never goes to my head because I never felt sexy as a teenager.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
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If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.
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I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
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Usually the films that I do are released theatrically in foreign markets. In the U.S., they're either picked up as HBO premier films or Showtime first-runs. In today's market, in America, you need at least $50 million for your budget to go to the big show, and I'm not quite there yet. But keep watching - maybe someday I will be.
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There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.
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The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are.
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My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story on - whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There's a sense that we're all ‘too’ something, and we're all not enough.
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Gender and sex are about rules which we have invented, but we are animals; we belong to nature.
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When people call me a sex icon, it's flattering but it never goes to my head because I never felt sexy as a teenager.
