Idina Menzel Quotes
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
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The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.
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Swimming is by far the best tonic I've found for my back. I'm not a good swimmer - I do the breaststroke or elementary backstroke in the slow lane - but when I took a two-week break from swimming I was surprised how much I missed it.
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'Smallville' gig was another one of those things I got through WWE. At that point, I had absolutely no aspirations to pursue acting.
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I just feel it's a shame to let fear get in your way and stop you achieving things.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
