America Ferrera Quotes
If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
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I remember when I did 'Mrityudand' there was this big hoo-ha, and people were asking me why I was doing an art movie, and I would just tell them that, 'You know, what's the big deal, it's a movie.' I'm so glad that's a thing of the past.
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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My music isn't mainstream music.
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I think it's very important that you have at least some sort of inner thing you don't talk about. That's why I find it distasteful when all these pop stars talk about their habits.
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I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.
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The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.
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If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.
