Julia Roberts Quotes
I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
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You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
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I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.
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I never forbid myself anything.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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For me, it's important to concentrate to the present and leave the past.
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I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.
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I recognize the unknowing, involuntary effect that 'Facts of Life' had and continues to have on several generations of people.
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Polygons are fashionable at the moment - particularly in the arcades.
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The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won't name the name of the club. We got hired in there to play, and the owner was pretty annoying. He kept coming up to me during the show and asking me to play 'Purple Rain.'
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I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.
