Saint Francis de Sales Quotes
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.
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I've always felt that writing can be learned but not really taught. The best thing somebody can do for you is to put the right book in your hands at the right time. I grew up in a family where the right book was always being put in my hands.
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A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
