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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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.
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I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
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Light knows when you're looking at it.
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We never thought that we would be more than an opening act.
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The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
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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.
