Audrey Hepburn Quotes
I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
Quotes to Explore
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
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Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
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For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
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A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
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Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.
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Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.
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In order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world, until its eye can learn to contemplate reality and that supreme splendor which we have called the good. Hence there may well be an art whose aim would be to effect this very thing.
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
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Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
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The best gifts are those we not only cherish but put to use.
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I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
