KaDee Strickland Quotes
My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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There is always pressure in football.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.
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It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
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It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.
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My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.
