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Once we realized what happened to Boney M., we wanted to come to the States. In Europe, artists just don't have the same protection they do over here.

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Sometimes when you are a professional footballer, you have to deal with tough decisions. - Adam Lallana
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Film wise, I invariably look at my work and reckon I could have done it better. I'm also conscious that I'm in a profession where we get more praise than we should compared to the usefulness of what we do. - Jeremy Irons
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Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all. - Jeremy Irons
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Mathematicians are always playing tricks on each other. They're always pulling jokes on each other. - Jeremy Irons
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Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not to be afraid of that when that happens. I am not trying to obliterate myself and completely hide within the images like I used to. - Cindy Sherman
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I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are. - Cindy Sherman
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I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place. - Sophia Bush
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Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things. - Daya
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Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists. - Michael Jackson
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Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure. - Sia
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Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution. - Judith Martin
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I got a call from somebody who used to be the president of Little Persons of America. She got called from some producers who wanted someone of a certain size in the John Hughes film 'Baby's Day Out.' So that was my big break, as the stunt double of a nine-month-old. - Verne Troyer
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Somebody pitched me a superhero movie involving Abraham Lincoln. I was also pitched the idea of Dwarfula, which involved a mob of little people. - Verne Troyer
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I've had people come up and actually pick me up out of the blue. That gets a little annoying. - Verne Troyer
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career. - Verne Troyer
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If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though. - Verne Troyer
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I was a typical boy growing up, even though I wasn't particularly outgoing or chatty. I loved running around and playing football. My siblings and I are only a year apart in age, so we played together. Sometimes it was good being so close, sometimes it wasn't - like when they'd steal my candy and toys. - Verne Troyer
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If I walk up to a bar, they wont see that I'm standing there. - Verne Troyer
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character. - Verne Troyer
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The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House on the Prairie' days or something. - Verne Troyer
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'Pinocchio's Revenge' was pretty bad. I was basically a stunt double for a doll. - Verne Troyer
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We grew up Amish, but my parents left the religion when I was a child. The Amish have lots of rules, and my dad thought many people in the faith were hypocritical because they'd tell others not to do something and then do it themselves. - Verne Troyer
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There aren't too many people like me. - Verne Troyer
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I've never been tall. So it's not like I was six-foot, got paralyzed, and now I'm in a wheelchair. It doesn't really faze me all that much. - Verne Troyer
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll. - Verne Troyer
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Too many of us still believe our differences define us. - John Lewis
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Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex. - Kevin Kelly
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Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives. - Kevin Kelly
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I think doing things that scare you a little is a good thing. A little bit of fear is never a bad thing. A healthy amount of fear makes everything taste better. - Banks
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I haven't even had to learn, but it's just this natural thing to be able to express any emotion I have through the tone of my voice. - Banks
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We should aim for every workplace to be a place which encourages good mental health. - Luciana Berger
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Anyone that's trying to do something to improve sound... that's all good. - Dr. Dre
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I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere. - Dr. Dre
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When you have your own identity as a singer, you don't have competition. - Armaan Malik
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Ultimately, it's your talent that counts. - Armaan Malik
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As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future. - Indra Nooyi
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A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded. - James Dobson
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When I was about ten, I was very impressed by the way Tarzan could swing through the trees from vine to vine. No one ever told me, 'Don't try this at home.' - James Dobson
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For people that don't have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don't want to analyze... those aren't the people I romanticize about dressing. - Marc Jacobs
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#Need
#People
I want to see women in pantsuits or two pieces, even something a little bit gaudy. It's so much more exciting than just another nice dress. - Marc Jacobs
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#See
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#Women
Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution. - Frances Beinecke
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We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire. - Frances Beinecke
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At the start of my career, I fought to prevent offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast. - Frances Beinecke
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Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can. - Frances Beinecke
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Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags, and crazy people. - Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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The markets are like a weather; you may not like it but you have to bear it. - Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.' - Salma Hayek
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Take good care of your skin and hydrate. If you have good skin, everything else will fall into place. - Liya Kebede
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Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations. - Liya Kebede
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I have always believed that there is no such thing as coincidence, and I have always believed in destiny. - Adnan Sami
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I want to be a conduit for healing. - Indya Moore
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I always believed that clothes should be designed to conform to our bodies and not our bodies to conform to the clothing. - Indya Moore
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We're standing on the shoulders of so many people who have already broken down so many barriers. - Indya Moore
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules. - Vera Wang
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There's not a lot of young conservative women out there, and I provide that. - Tomi Lahren
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People like me because I'm real. - Tomi Lahren
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Win on your merit, not your skin color. - Tomi Lahren
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It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on. - Christine Lagarde
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I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results. - Christine Lagarde
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Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity. - Richard Rohr
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Even at 10 or 12, I was a hot, fast little cheerleader. - Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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I have been a professional dancer and athlete my entire life. - Lana
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police. - Jack Nicholson
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All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean. - Robert Mueller
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We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously. - Robert Mueller
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I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes. - Janelle Monae
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At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game. - Sachin Tendulkar
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Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion. - Mehdi Hasan
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I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s on atheism and homosexuality. - Mehdi Hasan
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big. - Larry David
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway. - Larry David
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No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me. - Shirley Manson
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If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong. - Sarah Jessica Parker
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I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America. - August Wilson
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The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter. - August Wilson
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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them. - Ninon de L'Enclos
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#Names
#Them
If I'm going to have baked goods in the morning, the rule is that I have to make them myself. - Jenny Slate
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#Morning
#Myself
#Them
Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for kosher. - Larry Miller
#Get
#Looking
#Market
#More
#People
I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out. - Larry Miller
#Bedroom
#Body
#House
#Terrible
#Wind
I wrote my first report about Madam Walker when I was a senior in high school in 1970. - A'Lelia Bundles
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#High School
#High
#School
God puts pack rats together with non-pack rats. - A'Lelia Bundles
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#Rats
#Together
From the beginning, Madam C. J. Walker's message was as much about hair and beauty as it was about empowering other women. She knew that confidence and self-assurance are key ingredients to success, and that true beauty comes from within. - A'Lelia Bundles
#Beauty
#Confidence
#Hair
#Success
#Women
There's no excuse for the macro corruption, but Afghanistan was always an informal society with a weak central government. - Khaled Hosseini
#Always
#Corruption
#Government
#Society
It's instinct: Men love to feel like they take care of you. Knowing you feel protected makes his ego grow two sizes bigger. - Matthew Hussey
#Care
#Ego
#Grow
#Love
#Men
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. - Gloria Steinem
#Masculinity
#Never
#Power
#Solve
#Wealth
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#Happiest
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#Mankind
#Principle
#Up
To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#Education
#Eyes
#Like
#Obstacles
#Way
People don't understand the logistics of advertising. - Susan Wojcicki
#Advertising
#People
#Understand
In the old world, people used to have to go to focus groups and ask people what they thought. Now, people are writing all over the Web what they think about things. - Susan Wojcicki
#Focus
#Go
#Old
#People
#World
I kill myself for my body. - Cher
#Body
#Myself
The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights. - Amal Clooney
#Advice
#Experience
#Human
#Need
#Rights
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. - Florence Nightingale
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#May
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#Strange
I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases. - Jocelyn Bell Burnell
#Believe
#I Believe
#Research
#Would
We all are originally sinners as Adam and in Adam, his leprosy cleaving faster to us than Naaman's did to Gahazai, so that even the infant, before it has seen the light of the world, has this blemish inherent in its unborn members. - John Wycliffe
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#Light
#Seen
#Us
#World
Control meant not only taking care of myself but living in a much less protected world. And doing that meant growing a tough skin. - Janet Jackson
#Care
#Control
#Myself
#Tough
#World
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude. - Jane Fonda
#Age
#Born
#Living
#Old
#Peak
Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have. - Jaron Lanier
#Advice
#Music
#Progress
#T-Shirt
#Time
Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress. - Jaron Lanier
#Avoid
#Make
#Need
#People
#Progress
I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work. - Chuck Noll
#Football
#Life
#Professional
#Tell
#Work
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease. - Keith Miller
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#Pain
#Reality
#Spiritual
#Work
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