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Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 2427.

  • Bette Midler My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Willem De Kooning My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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  • Bill Walton My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Aileen Wuornos My main concern is if this composer has been made aware of the fact that I've come clean in all of my cases. I killed in pure hate, robbing along the way. So if this person hasn't, then I'd sure appreciate it if someone would inform him or her of it.
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  • Bryan Batt My mantra is, 'Don't be afraid of color.' What did it do to you? Do a color testing in alternate kinds of light you desire in the room because the pigment will change. And I refuse to believe that pale pale or white colors in a small room will buy you more square footage. Go with color all the way.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • B. B. King My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Barbara Stanwyck My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
    Barbara Stanwyck
    American actress, model and dancer (1907 - 1990)
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  • Betty Cuthbert My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.
    Betty Cuthbert
    Australian athlete (1938 - 2017)
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  • Bonnie Blair My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • Billy Crudup My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Al Capone My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Bernard Sahlins My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage, is in the service of advancing a story, and in that sense, it's all writing. In that sense we, while acting, write.
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  • George Bernard Shaw My way of joking is to tell the truth.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Rancic My wife and I work out together almost every day. It's just a great way to spend time together. We're going to run a marathon together later this year, and that's one more goal that we'll accomplish as husband and wife.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Bill Viola My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Milan Kundera Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bill Nye NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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