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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I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.
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Peace is neutral, and not very sexy.
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I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen program, 'Anger Management.'
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That's how it is with people—nobody cares how it works as long as it works.
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You never forget games like that. When you lose like that, you always remember it. We know they're going to be ready for us. Temple's a great basketball team, and they're coming off of two huge wins, so we know they're going to be prepared.
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If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We'll see.
