Tionne Watkins Quotes
The interesting thing about the TLC network is that they were interested in following me, not leading me.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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In India, it's a matter of fact that a girl child is seen as a liability. Probably the only expectation is that you grow up to a presentable young woman who can get a decent spouse.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.
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The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move.
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Two of our biggest stores are in Dallas NorthPark and Houston Galleria, where the economy and our customers' business interests are heavily dependent on the oil and gas industry.
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It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.
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The interesting thing about the TLC network is that they were interested in following me, not leading me.
