Harriet Martineau Quotes
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Everyone learns from their experiences.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you'd go off with a brochure in hand and you'd turn up and it wouldn't be like that at all.
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People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it.
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Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.
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I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea.
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I hope women who wear my perfume will have men all over them.
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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
