Clark Gable Quotes
The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.
Quotes to Explore
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.
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My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.
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My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.
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I wrote the first version of this book in 1996, in the closing years of the twentieth century. Now, almost two decades into the twenty-first, it seems we are still struggling with what W. E. B. Du Bois identified in 1906 as the “problem of the color line,” even though the demographic composition of that color line has changed quite a bit since then.
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It feels wonderful to get praise from other authors who I admire, but with each new book, my confidence is always the thing I struggle with the most until I start getting positive feedback from readers.
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Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.
