Maria Shriver Quotes
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
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Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.
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I just want to reflect the respect I have for animals.
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I hadn’t realised then that the only way you know that something has value is if you find yourself willing to make sacrifices for it.
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I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.
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It's not a bad day at work when you just have to take your shirt off for a big franchise movie. There are worse jobs out there!
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At work, you're replaceable... but as a parent, you're irreplaceable.
