Clare Boothe Luce Quotes
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.
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I think we should stop asking people in their 20s what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do. Instead of asking students to 'declare their major' we should ask students to 'list what they will do anything to avoid.' It just makes a lot more sense.
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But I don't want to lose touch with things like eating in Bob's Big Boy.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
