Paula Abdul Quotes
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write – I find it gets in the way.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
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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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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Language is fun; it's fun to try.
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Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?
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My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.
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You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
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We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.
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'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.
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One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.
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Authenticity is about imperfection. And authenticity is a very human quality. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections. The great leaders are not the strongest, they are the ones who are honest about their weaknesses. The great leaders are not the smartest; they are the ones who admit how much they don't know. The great leaders can't do everything; they are the ones who look to others to help them. Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We'll see.
