Ovid Quotes
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.
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Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
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Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.
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Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.
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May we remain connected in love. We are one.
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I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.
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When I was working on my Ph.D., I developed a computer algorithm to look for rapid changes in populations' DNA. Our DNA changes constantly over generations, but if certain changes spread through a population more quickly than others, they are probably the beneficial results of natural selection. This is the protection we give ourselves to survive.
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
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I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.
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I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.
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The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
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'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.'
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One of the amazing things about September 11 is that we lacked the imagination to connect the dots and foresee it.
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It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.
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'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
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Cui peccare licet, peccat minus.
