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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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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Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.
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I can be presidential, but if I was presidential I would only have - about 20% of you would be here because it would be boring as hell.
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It’s never too late to do the right thing.
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No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.
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It's a dirty little secret that I'm pretty self-conscious about coloring my own work. I just see so many people who love color more than me that I get freaked out every time I hit Photoshop. Black and white? I know exactly what to do, but color offers a million solutions to problems I don't even know exist.
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Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.
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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.
