Paula Abdul Quotes
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.
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Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.
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My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They're excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources.
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It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider.
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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
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Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
