Lauren Bacall Quotes
The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.
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Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'
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To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.
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I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.
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There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.
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Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.
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Love and despair go hand in hand.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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Military people do not get what they want by being emotional.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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You can throw away your script more easily than you can throw away your film.
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Request Magazine: And now we're back to suicide. Some months have passed now since Kurt Cobain killed himself. Judging from his suicide note, it seems as if he thought there was something that was being demanded of him by the music industry or fans or someone, that he either couldn't or didn't want to deliver.
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The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.
