Mira Nair Quotes
We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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I've been a lucky boy.
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After the 'Grey Album,' everyone thought of me as the hip-hop guy, the remix maestro. I didn't know how to show them otherwise.
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
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My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.
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The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.
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Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
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The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.
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North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
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We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.
