Anton du Beke Quotes
Mum was always hard-working. She came over from Spain and bought her own council house.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
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For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.
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In some industries, we refer to risk taking as 'research and development.' At financial institutions, we often take risk by investing in securities.
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The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.
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Money cannot help lifting its head.
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Mum was always hard-working. She came over from Spain and bought her own council house.
