Sarah Breedlove (Madam C. J. Walker) Quotes
I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
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I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.
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I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.
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I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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Quality and a great product matters, in startups, and in accelerators.
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I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you've got to cut down on the sports. You have to make it about people. You can't try to impress people with your knowledge and the X and O's and all the details and the technicalities.
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The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
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I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention.
