Cat Deeley Quotes
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
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People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.
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I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
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The best of prophets of the future is the past.
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I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise.
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When a black man is stopped by a cop for no apparent reason, that is covert racism. When a black woman shops in a fancy store and is followed by security guards, that is covert racism. It is more subtle than 1960s racism, but it is still racism.
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I save my money, brother. I don't spend what I don't make.
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I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it.
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If you believe you can make a difference, then you will make a difference. Believe in yourself, your family and your community and you will win.
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I like the pressure.
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I love cookbooks for completely different reasons. I love 'The Harry's Bar Cookbook' and Marco-Pierre White's 'White Heat' for their feel. For pure learning, Gray Kunz wrote a great cookbook, 'The Elements of Taste', published in 2001. The first time I read Charlie Trotter's, the Chicago chef's first cookbook, I was blown away.
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Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.
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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
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Charlie would be so proud of what these young people are accomplishing today and, in true Charlie fashion, would encourage them to walk to the very edge of their comfort zone and then take another step.
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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I just don't crave junk food.
