Oscar Hammerstein II Quotes
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket potato.
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We should not go to the people and say, 'Here we are. We come to give you the charity of our presence, to teach you our science, to show you your errors, your lack of culture, your ignorance of elementary things.' We should go instead with an inquiring mind and a humble spirit to learn at that great source of wisdom that is the people.
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Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.
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Purple is the last of the rainbow colors, so it means I will love and trust u for a long time.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
