Edith Wharton Quotes
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A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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I hate competition.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.
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Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
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Success to me does not mean money.
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And that's true for most of the people from the show. You don't hear a lot about them afterwards. But I think the difference is that I'd already done stuff. . . . I really know what I want, I know what I want to do and I'm working with great people.
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One of my first episodic jobs was on 'Twin Peaks,' if you can imagine that - one of the most unusual series ever.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
