Alexander Pope Quotes
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
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Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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I think if I was going to be someone for a day, I would want to be a performer, someone big, like Rihanna. I'd want to feel the energy of being on stage. I've always found that very interesting.
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So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.
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Something like 'Rust and Bone' would be a dream. Very pared down. 'Orphan Black' is such a challenge. I just need something that isn't as full-on intense as that.
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The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
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I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.
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I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
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Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
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People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
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Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
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I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America - singing the National Anthem.
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It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.
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The experience I had seeing Star Wars for the first time was mind-blowing. Eleven is a great age to have your mind blown. I will never forget that feeling of seeing 'Long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away' fade out. It was the first time a movie made me believe in another world that way.
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As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself … All of which I've earned a living doing.
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Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.
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There's no life like the life I've lived. You're free like a cloud floating up in the sky.
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I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.
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The more purely God's word is preached, the more deeply it pierces and the more kindly it works.
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At every word a reputation dies.
