Florence Henderson Quotes
I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying to do things in life that were constructive, and that's what I gravitated to instead of what I saw and what I was in.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I am here to change anything. I'm here to adapt. The critieria between a yellow and red card. What is a foul and what is not.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.
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People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.
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I was always a character actress, even when I was an ingenue. But as you age, people know what to do with you, and you're not quite as dependent on maintaining leading-lady beauty.
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I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying to do things in life that were constructive, and that's what I gravitated to instead of what I saw and what I was in.
