Ayana Mathis Quotes
I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days, I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made.
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A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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There's no business like show business.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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My mother is my hero.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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Stark looked strong and healthy and totally gorgeous. I was distracting myself by wondering what exactly Scottish guys did, or didn't, wear under those kilts when he turned to face me. His smile lit up his eyes. "I can practically hear you thinking.
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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
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I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
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I've got to give my neighbors a bottle of wine or something because I was just screaming into microphones and learning how to play instruments, and it was a lesson in patience for them, I believe.
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When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that he, too, was human and therefore less than perfect. His chief failing was, perhaps, that of all the great artists, he was the most lacking in exuberance. That is why he began to be scorned in a world which rated exuberance higher than beauty or love or pity.
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I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days, I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made.
