Bill Konigsberg Quotes
The world will make you vulnerable. If you're acting like you're not, that's what you're doing.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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The great love of my life is music.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.
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The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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I never think of access or good will. I just want a good interview. I want guests to be informative and entertaining. I've never been concerned about someone's liking me tomorrow.
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I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.
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I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
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Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'
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Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating with her learning that studio executives were withholding her fan mail, she submitted her resignation. She withdrew it when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced her that her role was too important a cultural breakthrough to leave.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
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To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
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The world will make you vulnerable. If you're acting like you're not, that's what you're doing.
