Kin Hubbard Quotes
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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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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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I am happy in Paris.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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I never planned on being an actress or Wonder Woman, but everything just happened, and I am grateful and happy and in love with what I do.
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In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.
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I take my work seriously.
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When I write a book... it's the same essential approach to music as with books. It has to be something I want to hear or read. Hopefully the audience comes along, since that's the only way you can write righteously. I have to ask, 'What do I want to hear?' not 'What do people want to hear?'
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National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
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I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.
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Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.
