Lucan Quotes
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'
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Even back in elementary school, I was a leader, but a leader who didn't know how to channel my leadership skills in a constructive way. When I was younger, it probably came out as being more of a bossy little kid.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
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I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
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Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.
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Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
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I played the vina until my heart turned into the same instrument. Then I offered this instrument to the Divine Musician, the only muscian existing. Since then I have become His flute, and when He chooses He plays His music. The people give me credit for this music which, in reality, is not due to me, but to the Musician who plays his own instrument.
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Quidquid multis peccatur inultum est.
