William Winwood Reade Quotes
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.
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I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
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I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
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At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
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Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.
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In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub.
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Day after dayThere are girls at the officeAnd men will always be men.Don't send him off with your hair still in curlers;You may not see him again.
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I believe that anyone can become better, if you put in the effort.
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I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.
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The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.
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There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.
