Cory Booker Quotes
Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
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If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.
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Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.
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The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to. It is thus, like poetry and religion, a device for gladdening the heart with what is palpably not true.
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True love is the parent of humility.
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Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.
