Thomas Kinkade Quotes
I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.
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We must never take the public's trust for granted - our predecessors worked hard to earn it, and it is our responsibility to continually earn that trust.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
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Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn't seem like something I was talented enough to do full time. So I kind of buried that dream.
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I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.' But I'm deeply sensitive. Not only about myself but to others. Not to pat myself on the back, empathy is a quality I've cultivated over my life. It came naturally to me as a child.
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
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A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.
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I've got perfectionist issues, as I can't seem to let tracks out the studio - it drives my manager nuts.
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Mumbai is home to us. Medina was born in Munich because Roya's family lives in Germany and she had five sisters to help her while I was travelling for work.
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The people at home will work hard and actually all of them think it was important that we hade the decision that we did make not to compromise; because we didn't have anything to compromise for.
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I lived with my mom in Hawaii until I pissed her off. And then I came to live with my dad and pissed him off. He made me hustle, and claw, and fight. That's all stuff you want. You want that drive.
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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I cannot be separated from Rudy Giuliani. But I am also not Rudy Giuliani.
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I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.
