Leo Baekeland Quotes
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
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You learn to be comfortable with your body. It's fine and not a big deal.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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My tactic is to make eyes at someone.
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My motto is never to hold on to anything. I accept and then let go: not just the negatives, but the praise, too. Or it'll get to my head.
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The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.
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I like for my home to reflect my fashion. I love adding earthy pieces to something very glamorous, and I love having things with a history or a story sitting alongside an uber-modern piece.
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Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms are out for a reason. Black women have had those arms forever - lifting, picking cotton, toting and carrying babies.
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I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.
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A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
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In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.
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I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.
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Nothing is cut while I'm shooting. I edit between nine months and a year, and usually have around 80 hours of footage I have to get down to an 82-minute movie.
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I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.
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Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in the bottom of the barrel, in dark tunnels.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.
