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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.
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We all deal with being unfairly judged.
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I never looked at people or singing as commodities.
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When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Oh for a blast of that dread horn on Fontarabian echoes borne!
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How very economical! (¡Pero que economía más grande!)
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Each for himself is still the ruleWe learn it when we go to school-The devil take the hindmost, O!
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One saw I was alive. Loosenedhis belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separatethis from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.
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Our small businesses are the largest source of job creation in our country. I am honored to join the incredibly impressive economic team that President-elect Trump has assembled to ensure that we promote our country’s small businesses and help them grow and thrive.
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Everyone now, they look back and they're like, 'What happened to your sweet image that you used to be?' And I'm like, then when you came out you thought I was too provocative. It's like you can never win. No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody, you know. I'm not here to please...
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We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.
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Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted... to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as authoritative as once the Roman world-empire was, and that, just as in the old times they said, Civis romanus sum, hereafter, at some time in the future, they will say, I am a German citizen.
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If the song was upbeat, we'd get out a funky Harry Connick, Jr. album, some Louis Prima big band, or a Bob Wills swing record for inspiration and swing for the fence, hoping to get that 'soundtrack to your life' vibe. And if it was a slow song, we'd go the other way and really make it worshipful.
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I've been to the top and I've been to the bottom more times than most people ride in an elevator.
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There is always room for coincidence.
