Anthony Trollope Quotes
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I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
Natalie Merchant
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
Sam Hunt
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Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
Candice Bergen
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I can never really enjoy being famous.
Utada Hikaru
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I just have that sort of face and when I got to Hollywood in the late '70s they took one look at me and said, 'Get him a gun. You definitely should be carrying a gun,' and so a lot of it is just the way I look. I look like I'm angry and dangerous, and in fact, I'm loveable and kind.
M. C. Gainey
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I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
Irv Kupcinet
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
Mahershala Ali
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When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.
Madhuri Dixit
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I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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I grew up with reggae music.
Youssou N'Dour
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I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.
Lady Gregory
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'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.
Orson Scott Card
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Foreman had annihilated every single one of his opponents to that point, but here was Ali, going to Africa, selling himself as the 'real deal' black man.
Leon Gast
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We shape our life by deciding to pay attention to it. It is the direction of our attention and its intensity that will determines what we accomplish and how well.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.
Sigmund Freud
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Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.
Chris Gardner
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
Anthony Trollope
