Catherine Zeta-Jones Quotes
I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had opened in Ireland, and I wanted to go because I was hanging out with the wrong crowd and I wanted to turn my life around.
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I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
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If you don't love what you are doing, it could be misery.
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I'm not here to judge Mike Tyson. I'm not here to judge nobody. I'm not here to monitor no other fighters. I respect him for what he did in the sport of boxing. He was an entertainer.
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Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes.
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'Don’t judge yourself,' he said. 'None of us are ever good at it.'
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‘You are admitting, then, to frivolity of attitude to important global problems?’
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You don’t know how to handle anything today, because you have to go to jail to get some press or fall down drunk.
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I had anger but never hate. Before the war, I was too busy studying to hate. After the war, I thought, What's the use? To hate would be to reduce myself.
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I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.
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And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays.
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I want to be remembered as iconic and different.
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Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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Put a lawn sign on your lawn; go door to door for your candidate. Register people to vote. There's so much we can do through our voices and time. That's what flips elections.
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You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.
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A black woman's handbook in this industry is, 'Whoa.' The chapter on 'Don't go there.' The chapter on 'How to say that nicely,' how to express that you don't like something so that you don't lose the opportunity - which is what we're doing all day long.
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Fashion is a way you can express yourself, so it's good stuff, you know?
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I want to work on some more complicated baking... and it would be interactive!
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For me, public service is an honor, and I have the ultimate respect for the rule of law.
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I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.
