Kim Basinger Quotes
I was doing publicity for 'The Getaway'; people were coming in from all over the world to do six-minute interviews.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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I hate competition.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Midi is my hobby.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
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If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'
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It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
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If you're great, I want to work with you.
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I was doing publicity for 'The Getaway'; people were coming in from all over the world to do six-minute interviews.
