Alexander Herzen Quotes
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
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One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.
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I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
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I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.
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I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
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I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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I don't know that I would host the Golden Globes or the Emmys because I don't think they have the appreciation for irreverence that the Critics Choice does.
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Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
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There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model.
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A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.
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The Republican principle, the unalterable principle, never to be lost sight of, is that slavery is wrong.
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I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.
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When I was 13, I went on 'Britain's Got Talent.' I auditioned. I sang a cover of a song called 'White Blank Page' by Mumford & Sons.
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Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
