Bernadette Peters Quotes
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
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Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.
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At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.
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I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.
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Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
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It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
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'I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.''No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.'
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A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
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Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
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Leave a message, don't leave a message. live, die, it's all the same dream.
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Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
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To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.
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I try to just live my life and do my work, and the rest will just fall into place, as it may. As it will.
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You can't hurt me without my permission.
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If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
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I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.
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I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.
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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
