Lord Byron Quotes
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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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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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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I don't like controversy.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'
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At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.
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You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.
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Our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries can't celebrate Christmas-or any aspect of their faith-openly for fear of persecution and death. And yet we, with all our freedoms, often choose to make Christmas a celebration of commercialism!
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Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
