Cecil B. DeMille (Cecil Blount DeMille) Quotes
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
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I'm one of the people that, when I hear Republicans talk about repealing Obamacare, I just want to roll my eyes. Republicans talk about reform to the healthcare, and they talk about selling insurance across state lines, and that's their solution?
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I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they were separated from us. We were all in the living room, and it happens to be a big living room. I continue to operate on that assumption.
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For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.
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When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.
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An option hides where we don't want it to hide.
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So far as living instruments of labour are concerned, for instance horses, their reproduction is timed by nature itself. Their average lifetime as instruments of labour is determined by the laws of nature. As soon as this term has expired they must be replaced by new ones. A horse cannot be replaced piecemeal; it must be replaced by another horse.
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A great revolution is hardest of all on the great revolutionists.
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I can truly say with Shelley I have been fortunate in friendships: that I have been no less fortunate in my enemies than in my friends.
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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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I expose people to magic, I expose them to something they're never otherwise going to see in their boring normal lives.
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Pageant makeup is so different from your day-to-day look. When you're on stage you really have to pack it on.
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Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth.
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Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
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Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.
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The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.
