Nancy Reagan Quotes
I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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The better you think , the better decisions you make . the better decisions you make , the better actions you take . the better actions you take , the better results you get
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Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize.
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Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.
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There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in the 'burbs and be happy. But forging my own way - my career, my relationships with wonderful but troubled people - that's who I am.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
