Elizabeth Fry Quotes
I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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I love the Nineties because more than any other period of time, there was such an eclectic mix of styles going on. More so than in the Sixties and Seventies, when there was an overriding look and sound.
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We all have our family issues from time to time.
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My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
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The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.
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My 40th birthday I held in an old-age home. My 50th I had at Pravda before it opened in New York. My 60th I had at Pastis. For my 70th, I thought, 'I don't need to have a celebrity party this year. I'm going to go take my oldest, closest friends to Paris.'
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I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.
