Majora Carter Quotes
What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
Quotes to Explore
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams.
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The bottom line is that sometimes the little things I do on the pitch provoke exaggerated reactions.
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What's your name, new best friend?
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Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her life. It was to be a very beautiful picture, she said to herself with an extraordinary feeling of proud confidence; not beautiful because of any gifts or skill of hers, for never was a woman more giftless, but because of all the untiring little touches, the ceaseless care for detail, the patient painting out of mistakes; and every touch and every detail was going to be aglow with the bright colours of happiness.
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What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
