Cheryl Baker Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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Whatever makes your head nod, that's want we want to give you.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.
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The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I think that was added later.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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We are well organized. We've done enough of them to know what we are doing.
