Cynthia Lord Quotes
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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Movies don't have borders.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
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To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat.
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I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
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I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected.
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Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.
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Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
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I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.
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Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.
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Sometimes life is like a long road leading from one "if" to another.
