Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
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Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.
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In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.
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There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that through the centuries has taken millions from the darkness into the light.
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Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.
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You know, President Obama feels very strongly that the government has a responsibility to engage with the American people, as well as with the world community.
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There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.
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I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
