Annie Besant Quotes
I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
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Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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When we do acquisitions, we decide what we want. We decide what fills a hole. And if the price is too high, our alternative is the $5 billion we spend on R&D every year. We're not well-known for overpaying, because at Oracle we always have an alternative.
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All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.
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I do not really know what is my interview and performance style.
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Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.
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Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.
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'I’m sorry Mr. Stanton, really I am. I didn’t mean to miss it. Things...happened.''Oh, well. Things happened. How nice to have that cleared up.'
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A woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man’s life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman’s life.
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I read about two young ladies that went to Parsons, and when they graduated Elizabeth Taylor opened a store for them in Paris and I thought okay-that's all I have to do!
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I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about..
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There have been many great performers, but only four great stylists-Al Jolson, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
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I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.
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Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?
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My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.
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The biggest stress for me at New York Magazine was when I was a middle-of-the-pack editor, and I had no control over my own schedule.
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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
