Gabourey Sidibe Quotes
All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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I see the Calvin Klein girl as strong, fun, and confident.
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Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
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The reason I decided to run for Senate is one of my responsibilities as governor is to make sure that the voices of our people and our small businesses in New Hampshire are heard in Washington and that we continue to make the type of progress we're making here at the state level; we need that same type of response and progress in Washington.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
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I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
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I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.
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I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.
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Improv seemed to replace stand-up, which was very big before that. Stand-up comedy was real hot in the late '80s and through the '90s.
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All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
