Baldwin Spencer Quotes
It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.
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You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.
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I auditioned for a one-act version of 'The Princess and the Pea' called 'The Ugly Duckling,' and I was cast as the King, starting a pattern of being cast in roles originally intended for men. I went to the first rehearsal, and I didn't get any laughs, and I choked and I quit. I walked away from it and joined the tennis team.
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There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.
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To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.
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It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
