Nella Larsen Quotes
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I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
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My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
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I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
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The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.
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I don't take advances for my books.
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That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.
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The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to build a better humanity. This means developing warm-heartednes s in this very life, here and now. So, do whatever work you do, but ask yourselves now and then, 'How can I contribute to human beings being happier and more peaceful?'
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I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.
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Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.
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The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such risks that he has more to tear than to hope. Abu al'Fadl Ja'far al-Dimishqi (c. 9th century) Arab writer. The Beauties of Commerce Business pays ... philanthropy begs.
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This gives us no pleasure, ... Canada is not a nation that rushes to embrace the use of force. We do not lightly endorse military action. For us it is always the last resort.
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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.
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Stop trying to be what society's shoving down your throat.
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In America, we trade more energy with our neighbors than we trade with the rest of the world combined. And I do want us to have an electric grid, an energy system that crosses borders. I think that would be a great benefit to us.
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I’m more concerned about helping humanity through my art
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I'm always in this shape, that shape, whatever shape you like the most. I am always in various stages of shapes. If the woman needs to be more soft I'll gain weight and then I'll lose weight for another film that I did where I wanted her to be more wiry. I enjoy using my body as something that helps me get to a character.
