Baz Luhrmann Quotes

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

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• I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.

  

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• Think and grow rich.

  

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• I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

  

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• My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.

  

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• You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

  

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• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

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• Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

  

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• Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

  

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• Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.

  

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• I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.

  

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• Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

  

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• People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.

  

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• I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

  

  Fiona Shaw
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• When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.

  

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  • Child
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• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  

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• No, I'm not a vegetarian. I do eat that way. I actually eat vegan quite a lot. I feel better when I eat that way, and I think there's been a lot of proof that's come up over the last however many years, that you can't deny, I don't think, that meat or dairy aren't all that good for us.

  

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• And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

  

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• It was a given at UCSB that if there was a role that called for a person of color, it was going to be handed to me. There were certain times when maybe I didn't try as hard. Going to Yale was a way more diverse experience.

  

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• It (the fetus) is strongly aware of your feelings toward it. At times the personality traits that it had earlier color this perception. It pushes these aside impatiently. It has mental images of its own probable future, and parts of it do become frightened at times, to relinquish old adult powers for an infant's helplessness.

  

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• For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.

  

  Earl A Grollman
  • Grief
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• I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Perfect
  • Worried