Salma Hayek Quotes

When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

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• I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.

  

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• Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.

  

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• You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.

  

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• We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

  

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• I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

  

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• Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

  

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• Salesmen always need something to sell.

  

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• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

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• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

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• I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

  

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• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  

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• Faith is personal if it's to be real.

  

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• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

  

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• My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
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• America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.

  

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• New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.

  

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• So the storm passed and every one was happy.

  

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• There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.

  

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• Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

  

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• Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?

  

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• When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.

  

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• This gets better, it really does. The odd thing is, I actually think you might be telling the truth. If you were going to lie, you’d at least come up with something that made sense.

  

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• When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Good
  • Myself