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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I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned. Therefore I feel it's incumbent on me personally to just contribute something, to add to a collective voice that needs to be here right now, to build it up to a tipping point, to make the world aware that women's rights still have to be addressed and that the word 'feminism' has been devalued and needs to be reclaimed.
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Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
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Everybody has a line. It doesn't matter how you're dressed onstage or what you say in your songs, that doesn't give anybody the right to invade your personal space.
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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.
