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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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 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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When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I'm beyond the normal person. I'm not your everyday Joe.
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
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All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.
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True beauty lies deep within. No matter what you look like on the outside, if you know you are beautiful, nothing can change that.
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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.
