Kahlil Gibran Quotes
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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I've done a dozen or two dozen infomercials.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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Just trying to buy me some time, then I remembered this magic trick - vocalizes the Inspector Gadget theme song, Go-Go-Gadget-Dick!
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
