Baratunde Thurston Quotes
Remember something about attention. Yes, it’s possible to buy, grab, or even steal it. But it’s far better to earn it.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
Carles Puigdemont
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
Carine Roitfeld
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
Usain Bolt
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
Abraham Lincoln
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I think twerking is overrated.
Kate Upton
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
Kate Bush
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
Laura Mvula
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
Farrah Fawcett
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
Tamara Tunie
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When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
Ian Mckellen
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
Edmund Phelps
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
Madchen Amick
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
Vidya Balan
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
Natalie Babbitt
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
Cameron Winklevoss
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
Jack Vance
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You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.
Anna Faris
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
Kate Smith
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'My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.'
Jack Vance
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Did you know that a laugh is something that comes out of a hole in your face? Anywhere else and you're in dead trouble!
Ken Dodd
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Remember something about attention. Yes, it’s possible to buy, grab, or even steal it. But it’s far better to earn it.
Baratunde Thurston