Erin Brockovich Quotes
None of us can take anything with us when we're gone. It's what we leave that's gonna matter.
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I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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When the season ends, I like to take a little time off from the diet I follow when I'm playing.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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Maybe some mornings, you come to my house, you'll see 'Miss Blankenship' come out of bed. I'm waiting for that spinoff.
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
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Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
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Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
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Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.
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Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right" a revolution was fought.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.
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No ruler is ever really dethroned by his subjects. No hand but his own ever takes the crown from his head. ... When he ceases to lead ... the revolt which casts him from power is only the outward manifestation of his previous abdication.
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I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
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None of us can take anything with us when we're gone. It's what we leave that's gonna matter.
