Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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Broadway is really my life.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.
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The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.
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When you see 'Star Wars', and you see Greedo hustle up to Solo, you know they have a history; you understand that there's a dude named Jabba the Hutt who's after him, and Greedo is going to try to shoot him and get the money. You get what's going on there.
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Destiny's Child was a part of me; I was blessed to even have that experience, but this is me doing my thing and that's all I can do.
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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
