Ali Babacan Quotes
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I don't speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and I put in a lot of time in Spain during the Barcelona Olympics. But I don't pretend to speak Spanish, and I don't want anyone to think that I can.
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I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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History's a resource.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.
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Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
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The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.
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I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.
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Many people suffer at the hands of others. The world can be unfair, at times mercilessly so. Millions of people in the world are genuine victims, right now. All of us will be at some point, whether it's for small matters or large, for a long duration or short. But we aren't all victims, not all the time anyway, not for everything.
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The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.
