Dan Buettner Quotes
The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.
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People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them.
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When all the world dissolves,And every creature shall be purified,All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
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Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.
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I did not do anything wrong as a governor, even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that.
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The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.
