August Bournonville Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.
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I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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You win with your feet. It looks easy, and it's not.
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We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.
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I went to Coachella once, and it was only to go see Leonard Cohen. I got in the car and sat through all the crazy traffic in L.A. to get there - instead of a two hour drive, it takes, like, six hours. Then I watched his set and turned around and left. I just so wanted to see him perform in the desert.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.
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Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.
