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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Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game.
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Thankfully, the meat of the Tony telecast is the performances from the shows, so the awards show kind of creates itself around the season, and then I fill in based on the vibe of the season in general. I'm happy that there'll be so many legitimately good performances on the show.
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I can't say that I know the lexicon as intimately as a lot of people, so I may be unworthy of being called a Trekkie. That would be doing a disservice to the people who really are Trekkies.
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If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We'll see.
