Alan Ladd Quotes
Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.
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Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when we get out of rhythm, that’s when we get into trouble.
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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
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Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
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Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.
