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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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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The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.
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If a person uses the word 'sorry' loosely then of course it loses its value.
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The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.
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If new orthodoxies of unbelief attack inherited faith, if scientism and a cult of technology lower our eyes to the gadgets in our hands, the effect ripples across a culture’s soul.
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You cut your life down for spite!
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There's no bias when it comes to facts, and there's no bias when it comes to decency.
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The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
