Tricia Helfer Quotes
I just want to be challenged. I want to be proud of what I do, and I want to learn new things and keep growing.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.
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You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.
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While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
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Art for me is like breathing.
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We all have an escape. Mine was theater.
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On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse.
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
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I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.
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I can see why people love the idea of a big white wedding - it is a day when they are the centre of attention and get to wear a beautiful dress. But that sounds awful to me because that is like getting ready to walk down the red carpet.
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Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots.
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I think Hollywood is in love with sequels. If it's successful once, just jazz it up and shoot it out there again. I think it's unfortunate.
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I just want to be challenged. I want to be proud of what I do, and I want to learn new things and keep growing.
