Vincente Minnelli Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Love shouldn't be comfortable.
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Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.
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I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.
