Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
Don't get up. Just sit a while and think. Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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When you start to live your dream, it's not quite what you thought it was because there is a lot of overwhelming stuff that comes on top of it, and you have to figure it all out.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.
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I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
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I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.
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I grew up in the Ukraine and then I went to Paris in 1996. I went there because there was a modeling agency that invited me there to work so I thought, 'Sure.'
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Mr. Clyde Ross at that time, like most African Americans around the country, was unable to secure a loan, due to policies around redlining and deciding, you know, who deserved the loans and who doesn’t. There was a broad, broad consensus that African Americans, for no other reason besides blanket racism, could not be responsible homeowners.
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A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.
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I feel for all the parents whose babies just keep waking up for years. My heart and back go out to you guys! You are my heroes, and I am not fit to walk in your shoes!
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These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.
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We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.
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Don't get up. Just sit a while and think. Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
