Carol Leifer Quotes
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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I'm a real romantic.
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That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
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As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is a very important movie because it represents something new. The director Christophe Gans came up with the idea of taking a French legend and making it some kind of really strange, almost Chinese action movie. The result is something that I haven't seen anywhere before.
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I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.
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I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it.
