Les Baxter Quotes
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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I've been training quite hard.
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.
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I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.
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My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.
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I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.
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Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.
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Back in my 20s, I was playing poker to avoid living. I wasn’t very satisfied with life. I used to play in a big game in Archway. And we’d play as much as we possibly could and for as much money as we had, and that went on for a couple of years.
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I never write when I'm drunk. Why should one need aids? The Muse is a high-spirited girl who doesn't like to be brutally or coarsely wooed. And she doesn't like slavish devotion - then she lies.
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What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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Livia, nostri coniugii memor vive, ac vale!
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It could never happen in Denmark, Danish people are much more calm than those further south.
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Not if the butcher had become a butcher simply in order to have a chance of murdering the baker. One must always look one step behind, my friend.
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Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the most vulnerable people, we provide them with the capacity to be more resilient to the next shock.
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The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Visiting a show that's already established can be a bit daunting, as they've been a family already, and you're the newbie.
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My music is inspired by my life: the people in my life, the people I have relationships with, the people I love, the people that make me feel something.
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I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.
