Salma Hayek Quotes
You know how macho boys get when they're all together? Well, the set of 'Desperado' was like that. They were all trying to put me down, saying, 'Bring on the stuntwoman, Salma can't do that.' But I did everything.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
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Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.
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I want film stories to provoke a question in people about what's going on emotionally around them and empower them in some way or ask them about themselves.
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One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.
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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
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I've made a point of trying not to play the same part, and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy.
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You know how macho boys get when they're all together? Well, the set of 'Desperado' was like that. They were all trying to put me down, saying, 'Bring on the stuntwoman, Salma can't do that.' But I did everything.
