Anita Baker Quotes
My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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We should all love animals.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
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I've been a writer since I was 13. I've been writing scripts and having pitch meetings. So, when I do see people like Brit Marling getting things done, it lets me know that it's possible. It basically just tells me, 'Dude, get to work!' For some reason, I think that I'm not doing enough work.
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Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people I've ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever been in any kind of contact with. To not tell that story would have been disgraceful, in my opinion.
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There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the States. Or also have States financing. Everything's pretty small.
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The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.
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Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.
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My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'
