Ardel Wray Quotes
Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.
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I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.
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People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
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We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
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I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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I have so much fun because I love to meet the women who wear my shoes and meet the clients. That, to me, is the best part - getting to know the faces of the people who actually wear my shoes and getting to have a conversation with them.
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My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.
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It's not important to me that people understand me.
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Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.
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What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.
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In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.
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What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.
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I thought 'Mud' would be such an easy film for people to understand.
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Being a professional wrestler surely prepares you for any acting role in that we have to act on live television, so there's a lot of pressure put there.
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We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.
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When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's something that didn't come from you. It was about the other thing - the thing you were experiencing, or the people you were with, or the mechanism you were operating, or whatever it might be.
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I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.
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Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.
