Edmund Morris Quotes
We cannot, when the nation becomes fully civilized and very rich, continue to be civilized and rich unless the nation shows more foresight than we are showing at this moment.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
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In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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At fourteen, you really do start realising that the world is not a safe and protected place or not always.
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Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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We cannot, when the nation becomes fully civilized and very rich, continue to be civilized and rich unless the nation shows more foresight than we are showing at this moment.
