Carmen Miranda Quotes
Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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There is no suspense in inevitability.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
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I flew to New York to do a commercial back in the day when people could meet you at the gate, and the little agent when I came off the plane said, 'Oh, Miss Carr, we are so happy to have you here.' I went, 'Oh, for goodness sakes.'
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As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.
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Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.
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The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.
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I'm not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me. And I'm not interested in isolating myself. I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.
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Who was confessor To the gracious Son of Mary? What was the most beneficial measure Which Adam accomplished?
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Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,The sun has left the lea.
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The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied.
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God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.
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Yes, you can-if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable. (Hays translation)
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A man who tries to please all men by weakening his position or compromising his beliefs, in the end has neither position nor beliefs. A man must say what he believes clearly, without dogma, and without guile.
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Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it.
