Walter Annenberg Quotes
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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Working with Anthony Hopkins every day is a blessing.
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The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Prayer is striking the winning blow ... service is gathering up the results.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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A small but brilliant advance made today by someone’s awareness may for the moment reach a very small audience, but insofar as it’s valid and beautiful, it will make its way and become part of the whole world of consciousness. So in that sense it’s all working toward this huge audience, and all working toward a better man.
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Let's teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
