Marian Anderson Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
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Good material is good material.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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I always wanted to be a mom.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.
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I love when a girl is like, 'I can't hang out. I have to go to class.' And I go pick her up, and she's all sweaty in a leotard with her hair in a bun. That's the hottest thing ever.
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I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.
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I do expose my body, but only because I think people should have something nice to look at.
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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
