Cam Quotes
My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.
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I can really serve the audience instead of making this about me and about serving myself and my pocketbook.
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It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success
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My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
