Naomie Harris Quotes
There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'
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People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.
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Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions. (p. 402)
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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You can't have a country or a city or a state that's worth a damn unluss you govern within yourself in your day-to-day life.
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I cannot imagine a worse job than being president of these Untied States in these most trying of times. President Barack Obama has been under siege from every side for the entirety of his time in office.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
