Ric Flair Quotes
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
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Every single movie I go up for I'm just checking the phone to see if the e-mail's come in, to see if I got the part yet, which makes me more anxious.
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Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
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It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
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But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.
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So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.
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Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.
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My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.
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I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?
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I've had more world championships than you've had women!
