Marilyn Monroe Quotes
If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
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Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
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I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
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Don't confuse honours with achievement.
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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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Doing good isn't that hard. It's just doing a lot of good that is very hard. If your aims are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, you can cause a great deal of damage.
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One of the things I find really hard and view as a massive drag... is that I'm losing my ability to be completely anonymous.
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If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.
