Barry White Quotes
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I don't like controversy.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.
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It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are going to appreciate them.
Colson Whitehead -
Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
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I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
