Arlene J. Chai Quotes
The past defines us as much as the present. By never knowing my past, I was never sure of who I was. Because mine was missing, I never felt whole.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.
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I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.
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Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
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I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.
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I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.
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I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
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Vince Vaughn is a master improviser.
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Even men who share their personal experiences find that, instead of empathy, they get the response Dear Abby gave this man: 'Women have it worse.' This belief is so strong that over the past quarter century, women’s old fantasy of marrying a man-as-protector has been tainted by women’s new nightmare of husband-as-batterer.
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When you're paying everybody nothing, I mean, they have homes to pay for. And my movies are like putting on theater. Nicole Kidman is at craft services, and John Cusack is moving furniture; there are no egos. The only ego is the story.
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Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh.
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The past defines us as much as the present. By never knowing my past, I was never sure of who I was. Because mine was missing, I never felt whole.
