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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A very tiny percentage of people with mental illness are also violent. We know this. The constant linking of the two together in national media is so misleading.
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I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.
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People send me fanmail in the post, and I keep every letter, and I always say I will read every single one. It might take me years and years, but I'll do it. Your audience are what makes you, so you have give as much back as you can.
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Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals.
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A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.
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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.
