Alva Myrdal Quotes
I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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This life is messy.
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I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that dear Octavia has a reading age of 28. I remember trying to read 'In Cold Blood' at the age of twelve, and realising that just because you can read book doesn't mean you should.
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Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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I think there's an abundance of talent in America and there will never be not a lot of talent out there.
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I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
