Lin Yutang Quotes
It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.
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I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.
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Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band.
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When I was born, that was right smack in the middle of 'The Cosby Show.' But what I remember is my mother took me with her... She exposed me to the world in such a way where I was included. And I didn't feel like she chose her career over me.
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Deep inside you know when trouble comes and there's no one else to turn to you can call on each other and count on each other ... because each other is all you have.
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Aig [F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig] 'e don't say much; 'e don't, so to say, say nothin'; but what 'e don't say don't mean nothin', not 'arf. But when 'e do say something--my Gawd!
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It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.
