Tyson Beckford Quotes
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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My first trophy in France was the Young Player of the Year. I was 17. Chelsea is not just one player. It is not only me. We have signed a lot of players. Now we have some good signings like Cesc Fabregas and Diego Costa.
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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their Internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant.
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'Dad, are we scared?' said Sunshine. 'No, honey. It's an adventure.
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What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.
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The people I've known who've done great things of that type - you know, building hospitals, running schools - are very humble people. They give their lives to the project.
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I'm happy doing what I do.
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Perhaps one of the few positive aspects of the coup is that it has discredited the claim that that that the state had been taken over by the Brotherhood under Morsi.
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I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.
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I want to make timeless movies.
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No matter what happens or what I do. I’ve always tried to remain open and positive.
