Muhammad Ali Quotes
I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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Zippy is living in the moment.
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The people I see be the most successful are the people who have an inner confidence and an inner strength that comes from the character they display away from the stage and from what their parents taught them.
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Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and try to sort them out through song, but whenever I sit down to write, it comes out hackneyed or overly saccharine.
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Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity.
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I was born a singer. I need to do that.
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I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
