Marilu Henner Quotes
You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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Don't trust anyone over 30.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them.
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If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.
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You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
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You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.
