Paddy Chayefsky Quotes
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
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We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.
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We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last to lay the old aside, it might not be a better world, but it would be a lovelier language.
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I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman and I don't know that? So that is my goal next year-to really dissect the budget.
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You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
