Helen Keller Quotes
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
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I remember auditioning for the Wonder Woman television show and being told that I wasn't the Wonder Woman type, but if I wanted to play the best friend, I could audition for that.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.
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The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.
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A lot of French comedy is satire.
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You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
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Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.
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The saddest thing in life is people with sight, but without vision.
