William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.
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My wrists, which are tattooed with my daughters' names, are always occupied by a watch.
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It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.
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You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.
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The establishment of the state of Israel is not the result of the Holocaust. It is almost a result of the fact that the Holocaust was not totally successful.
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.