Cicely Tyson Quotes
I don't think you can measure wealth in dollars and cents. I really don't believe that at all because there are some things that money cannot buy. One of them is health. And the other is security in your relationships and friends.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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There is within each of us a 'life-instinct,' which is forever working toward health, happiness, and all that makes for more life for the individual.
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Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.
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If I went to the pub lunch and cleared my head with a pint surely there would be an insight, a flash of inspiration. Surely. My money went over the bar. The pint came back. Nothing else.
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As each brigade emerged from the woods, from 50 to 100 guns opened upon it, tearing great gaps in its ranks; but the heroes pressed on and were shot down by reserves at the guns. It was not war, it was murder.
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I don't think you can measure wealth in dollars and cents. I really don't believe that at all because there are some things that money cannot buy. One of them is health. And the other is security in your relationships and friends.
