Cynthia Lord Quotes
Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.
Quotes to Explore
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Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.
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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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We want you to pay attention.
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I may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that kitchen, you don't want to get in my way.
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I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.
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My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
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Why would you want to do something and not be special and want the best?
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I don't want to look back and be like, 'You had it all, and you weren't even present for it. You weren't able to enjoy it.' I want to be here, be now and be grateful.
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I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.
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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
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Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.
