Rita Moreno Quotes
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.
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The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.
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Love is just chemistry.
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I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.
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I'd rather go to the playoffs than not go, even with a losing record. Because once you get there, you never know.
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If I was to pick out a new instrument to learn how to play, I thought the didgeridoo would be cool and not a lot of people play it.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.
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I'm one of the most joyous people I've ever met.
