Aesop Quotes
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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Bottom line: I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'
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Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.
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A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
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There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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I remember I did a boxing class. I remember sparring one time, and the guy smacked me right in the nose, and I was just like, 'What is this? No. No. None of that.
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Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.
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Anybody who has spent time with the networks - in fact, you don't even have to spend time with the networks, all you have to do is just watch primetime TV - and you think, 'What the hell are they doing? I could run the network better.' And I think everybody feels that way.
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I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.
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Fight scenes are hard, no matter what you do. You're trying to make it look like you're hurting someone without hurting them. It doesn't matter how big and strong the guy is that you're fighting or how small and feeble someone is that you're fighting. You don't want to hurt them. You're working with them.
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Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.
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We were looking for the perfect vehicle to re-team. 'Hairspray' presented us with a wonderful opportunity to collaborate once again with our multi-talented friend.
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The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. This brought an entirely new answer to the question, 'Why should I do this or that?' It used to be, 'Because self-instituted authority command you.' The answer now was, 'Because it is good for men.' In this lies our greatest debt to the Renaissance, that it instituted the welfare of men as the end of all action.
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I think it's nourishing to do both comedy and drama.
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I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.
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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
