Angela Bassett Quotes
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.
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I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.
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Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?
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I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.
