Freddie Mercury Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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To be is to do.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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I never read the tabloids.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
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Money for me today does not really matter.
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I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.
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Money grants you freedom, I guess.
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Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
