Beyonce (Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter) Quotes

You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.

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• I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

  

  Ed Helms
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• The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.

  

  Kate Micucci
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• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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• I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

  

  Beau Willimon
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• If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
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• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
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• I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

  

  Olivia Holt
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• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  

  Sam Levenson
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• And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.

  

  Frances Wright
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• You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
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• I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

  

  Jack Carroll
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• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
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• For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
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• It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

  

  Zebulon Pike
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• The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them within the bureaucracy. And I was involved with the Chipko movement in my student days.

  

  Vandana Shiva
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• I went to New York to be where the beautiful people were and it didn't disappoint me. It's so open. It's a great platform to do your own thing or start new things. When I got there, I started living for the first time.

  

  Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
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• You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.

  

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