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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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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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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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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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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Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva. And there was the slow movement and the lovely last singing movement still to come. I was cured all right.
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Lonestar Where are you out tonight? This feeling I'm trying to fight It's dark and I think that I would give anything For you to shine down on me
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I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty.
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Cars for me are like a piece of art.
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I think I have a gene in me to always fight for the underdog, which I've done since I was a kid.
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I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
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We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.
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Belinda was as brave as a barrel full of bears,And Ink and Blink chased lions down the stairs,Mustard was as brave as a tiger in a rage,But Custard cried for a nice safe cage.
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I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.
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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.
