Cynthia Erivo Quotes
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Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.
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The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.
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I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.
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White lies keep social dignity intact and are far more prevalent than most people realize. Several studies have found that an average person is lied to from 10 to 200 times a day - mostly just to keep a conversation going, to avoid conflict, or to establish a connection with someone.
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I think it's very difficult to generalize as to why, in a particular league or a particular industry, somebody has or has not come out. We certainly don't want a player to come out for our sake. It should be what's right for him and something that he has to be comfortable with.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
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The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.
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A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst of architects from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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I just like the themes it's exploring. In the way my character says, 'I want us to become brothers again, like we used to be.' I really like that line, and it means a lot to me. I just find there's a lot of things like that in this movie that have that feeling. There's stuff that feels exhilarating.
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By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.
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Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.
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I learned a long time ago from when I did 'Seinfeld' never to take anything seriously, and to be part of the joke is the best way to show what a good sport I was.
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I like Traditional Medicinals for most teas I drink.
