Breakfast Club Quotes
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
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Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I tend to write during the day so I can see my children at night. But if my kids aren't with me and I have a chunk of time when I'm a single woman living in my house for a miraculous week, I will get to write at different hours.
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The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.
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I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
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Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.