Ralph Peters Quotes
Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it's hard.
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For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
