Ben Vereen Quotes
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
Salma Hayek -
The ox suffers, the cart complains.
Victor Hugo -
People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
Taron Egerton -
Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S. E. Hinton -
I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.
Samantha Bee
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
Walter Annenberg -
I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.
Jacky Ickx -
When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
Cam -
One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
Zoey Deutch -
Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
Karen Bender
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It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
Sal Albanese -
Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.
Wang Jianlin -
I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
Questlove -
That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
H. P. Lovecraft -
It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
Edmund Barton -
'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.
Mads Mikkelsen
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Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
Harold Brodkey -
You know a photo session is really a dance and making sure that they're comfortable and for me it's the music, the music, the music. That is everything.
Carol Friedman -
I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
Hal Sparks -
I told my mom I went gold, and she didn't know what that meant, and I was immediately humbled.
Andy Mineo -
Our duty as journalists is to use our clarity - and our imagination - to build hope in the societies in which we work. Our duty is to keep holding power to account, and to fight for press freedom around the world.
Katharine Viner -
I used to dance, but now I only move.
Ben Vereen