Claud Cockburn Quotes
Since becoming a journalist I had often heard the advice to 'believe nothing until it has been officially denied'.
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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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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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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New York City has an integration problem.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.
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The particular way I'm going to die is not going to be particularly pleasant. It will probably be physically uncomfortable, and it won't be an easy thing for my wife and kids to watch. I think it will be a real challenge to see if I can squeeze the lemons hard enough to still get lemonade the last few weeks.
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I can do lightning mathematics quicker than somebody can do them on a calculator.
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Basically, I frittered away the Nineties making pop videos and being pretty self-indulgent.
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Half the battle is confidence. There are people who have great figures but have terrible confidence so you are not drawn to them because they seem down all the time.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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I wouldn't go so far as to make 'You Don't Own Me' a tango or 'It's My Party' a hip-hop thing. Believe me, those things have been suggested to me. But I thought if I could stay true to the song, the arrangements would work. I'm really enjoying singing them.
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Since becoming a journalist I had often heard the advice to 'believe nothing until it has been officially denied'.
