Alvin Ailey Quotes
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Funny is an attitude.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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I really like oysters, and I won't eat them alone. They're just a weird thing to eat by yourself.
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I think what happens is, people do just want to see you as a glamour doll that's put up on screen, but I guess it's how you see yourself.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'
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The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
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Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.
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In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.
