China Forbes Quotes
Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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Obviously, that off-the-ice battle I went through, plus injuries I came back from, I always felt the fans are really knowledgeable there and respected and appreciated guys that gave whatever they had and guys that fought through things.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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The conviction that freedom is a universal desire is not the property of any political camp. ... Yet those who hold it remain a precious few, outnumbered many times over by the skeptics who don't.
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Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
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I can overact in two seconds.
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I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.
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Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.
