Ernst Gombrich Quotes
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
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Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.
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I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.
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Sarah Corvus in 'Bionic Woman' was one of my favorite characters I've ever played, ever, for reasons that are very similar to Nikki in 'Sexy Evil Genius.' I felt that that show was taken away from me too soon, and I really wanted to dive back into that mind frame again.
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It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life.
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The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.
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It may be that if I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than the ripple caused by a stone thrown in a pond, but one ripple causes another.
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The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
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Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
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As an actor, you never try to be someone else. You can't.
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I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.
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Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way.
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I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.
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I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.
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Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!
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Art raises its head where creeds relax.
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My father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful.
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You could easily tell that hardwork and perseverance go hand in hand with patience. We often hear people say patience is worth it, yet we don't practice it. I did and look how well it worked out for me.
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Danger of our culture. We belong to a time in which culture is in danger of being destroyed by the means of culture.
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Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.
