Aretha Franklin Quotes
Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.
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I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.
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Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.
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We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.
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I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers. I had the privilege recently to work with Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay Mehari and his wife on the film Difret. They are that unique balance of very thoughtful conscious filmmakers who are also brilliant, original artists.
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The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.
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Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
