P. T. Barnum Quotes
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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You look marvelous!
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Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.
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Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
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I haven't dunked since Bill Clinton was in office, so I'm just happy for anyone who can do so without a trampoline.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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Honestly, I don't buy papers or the weeklies. I think when something messy does happen, you just need your closest friends and family all around you, and it's nothing to do with anyone else.
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I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
