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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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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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.
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When I moved to Atlanta, I felt like an outsider - away from my friends and family except for the LGBTQ community.
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I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.
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what are we all sent into the world for, but to be of use to each other?
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After the death of the sadistic dictator Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1998, Nigeria underwent a one-year transitional military administration headed by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, who uncharacteristically bowed out precisely on the promised date for military disengagement. Did the military truly disengage, however? No.
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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.
