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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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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Everywhere - all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul … This is the prison this planet is being turned into.
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It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
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We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.
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One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!
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There are 146 countries above us where the men have longer lifespans, and the biggest blow is that even with four wives who don't fast for them, the Arab men outlive our good old Indian dudes.
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Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.
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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.
