Florence Henderson Quotes
When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
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For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.
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I was amazed at the house that I grew up in; it looks practically identical to the way it was, but I couldn't recognize it because of the size of the trees.
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When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
