Simone Manuel Quotes
I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'
Quotes to Explore
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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A cat is never vulgar.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
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When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
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Most pieces take between two and three weeks and involve more than 40 people from the fabric cutters to the embroiders to the sewers. It's an elaborate undertaking.
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I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
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I eat a lot. I probably eat more than anybody that I know. I'll go on set and get a plate of bacon, a bagel, an omelet, boiled eggs, fresh fruit, oatmeal, fresh juice, potatoes, basically anything that's there. I don't mean that I alternate between these things. I'll eat all of this for breakfast.
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I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
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I have a simple mantra: eat right and work out; you'll never have a weight issue. I never starve or binge.
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Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of the market." In reality, what is called "the market" consists of human beings making their own choices at their own cost. What is called "social justice" is government imposition of the notions of third parties, who pay no price for being wrong.
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Hormones get no respect. We think of them as the elusive chemicals that make us a bit moody, but these magical little molecules do so much more.
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Nothing gets me more nervous than white people who talk black.......I mean, it's fun on 'Ricki Lake', but in real life......
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I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'
