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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I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.
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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 social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.
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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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I'm living as an artist, and that's a staggering feeling, it's a total luxury. And because you have this amazing chance, with so much freedom, I'm determined to make something that is worth that. I feel this responsibility - to create something that makes an audience feel, which takes them somewhere. But that's very hard to achieve.
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I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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Harry Dresden: Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!
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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.
