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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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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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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They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.
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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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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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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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I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
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Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.
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In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
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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.
