Barbara Walters Quotes
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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I'm a character actor.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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Because as tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service... I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course.
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Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.
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Why give up before we try?
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If you could position the best platform media company around the world with the best content, we could get explosive growth.
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Shortly after my Ph.D., Alfred Kastler urged me to accept a teaching position at the University of Paris. I followed his advice and started to teach at the undergraduate level.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
