Serinda Swan Quotes
Nowadays, people in the entertainment industry can have a louder voice than politicians, and I think its important that they use that voice to say something positive or to give a voice to somebody thats had theirs taken away.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
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I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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Pineapple reduces swelling.
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I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.
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'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.
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A high nutrient diet, if widely adopted, could bring millions of people in touch with true hunger, and stop the proliferation of obesity and preventable chronic disease.
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I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don't hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental.
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In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
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Funding has not kept pace with demand for expanded lanes and well-maintained roadways.
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Nowadays, people in the entertainment industry can have a louder voice than politicians, and I think its important that they use that voice to say something positive or to give a voice to somebody thats had theirs taken away.
