Ivan Turgenev Quotes
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.
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A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
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For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
