P. T. Barnum Quotes
I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
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A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
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It's not the way you want to get a job, to see someone you admire and look up to and learned so much from get fired.
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It is a mistake to suppose that the Supreme Court is either honoured or helped by being spoken of as beyond criticism. On the contrary, the life and character of its justices should be the objects of constant watchfulness by all, and its judgments subject to the freest criticism.
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I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.
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I'm not interested in being known for anything other than the work.
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I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes.
