Tones and I (Toni Watson) Quotes
No one could have ever prepared me for the whole world judging me and comparing to other artists. But what's most important is that you have to be a good person and care about others and carry yourself well.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
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I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.
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What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.
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I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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A man of truth must also be a man of care.
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What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?
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The world is a force not a presence.
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To be fair, the collection business does have a few good people in it. But it also has those who will lie and make threats.
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We procrastinated in the U.S., it's true. And we are changing that.
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I had the perfect level, growing up, between being normal and having a little taste into Hollywood. People would recognize me once in a while, but I could still go out and have my life.
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I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.
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And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.
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There are very few great poets in the world.
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I love big summer dresses, and it sucks because I'm such a little person, so I always have to be very specific about which ones I put on.
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No one could have ever prepared me for the whole world judging me and comparing to other artists. But what's most important is that you have to be a good person and care about others and carry yourself well.
