Carmen Dell'Orefice Quotes
We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myself. I listened to other people's opinions and took them as gospel.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
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I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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I had done some commercial work in junior high and stuff - my mother would bring me into the city, and we'd go on these crazy castings. Acting was something I always dreamed of doing... it was my passion when I was young.
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The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal.
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
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In my career as an actress, I have never got involved with anybody from the world of films. I have always kept my professional and personal life separate, as that's my policy.
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We have to program the mind of the public that age is not ugly. Age is just age. Wake up, American children, and stop listening to other people's voices. Know yourself, be true to yourself and make a contribution. It took me half my life to know myself. I listened to other people's opinions and took them as gospel.
