Sarah Jessica Parker Quotes
It's a tricky time because people are going after the wrong people, too. There's a misplaced rage and aggression, that as a person in a public position you almost feel like you have to be perfect now when you express yourself. It feels almost unfortunate.
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I have learned to be patient.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.
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This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.
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We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.
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Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.
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All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.
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When most people are unhappy customers, they get mad; I try to get rich. All of my businesses started the same way: I got rich by improving the world and making a lot of people happier in the process.
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I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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It's a tricky time because people are going after the wrong people, too. There's a misplaced rage and aggression, that as a person in a public position you almost feel like you have to be perfect now when you express yourself. It feels almost unfortunate.
