Henri Rousseau Quotes
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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My dad doesn't hug me enough!
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
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Money doesn't change who you are; it magnifies who you really are.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.
