Orlando Aloysius Battista Quotes
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
