Alphonse Karr Quotes
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
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We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.
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We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.
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I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.
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Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.
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Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new.
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I think penguins are cute.
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Most of leaders in Philippine politics come from rich family.
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You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
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More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.
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My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.
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I'm a total performer.
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I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.
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We lose things all the time. We lose ourselves every day. We lose our minds occasionally. But it's just a part of life, loss.
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It's difficult to always perform well, to always go on the court and win and hit great shots. It takes a lot of time and a long learning process.
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I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.
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My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared.
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I always rate a convention by the lack of blisters from twiddling my thumbs.
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The more things change, the more they are the same.
