Tom Golisano Quotes
Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing.
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me – My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!
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Some you win some you lose.
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
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It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
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Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
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We can't be The Beatles. I can't shine their shoes. I can't sing as well as Paul or John. I can't write those kind of songs. But they would die in my armour and my eight-inch platform heels, and Paul can't spit fire, so there you have it.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
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I know people are going to put the main focus on stopping me, so I need to learn how to make my teammates better by passing and creating opportunities for them.
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The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.
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I was really enjoying one of the screenings of 'Beautiful Creatures' and there was this little 14-year-old boy sitting next to me in the screening and I was laughing at all the jokes and I just felt really judged. I had to keep it down a bit. It's a bit embarrassing.
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What's the point of rap if you can't be yourself, huh?
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I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now.
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When I think about a character, it does start with the shoes: What kind would she wear? How would she walk in them?
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Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.
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Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.
