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Quotes by Entertainer

"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."

"I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn't been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn't have been lucky."

"In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules."


"No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience."

"It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?"

"Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times."

"As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine things which otherwise were not easily formulated."

"What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence."

"In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds."

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."

"What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives."

"Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up."

"Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right."

"I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years."

"The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights."

"If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers."

"I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death."

"The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are."


"Self esteem comes from doing something and accomplishing something."

"People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play."

"The stage was our school, our home, our life."

"Most people I run into say, I haven't missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don't, but if you do, you're a loyal viewer."

"Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more."

"I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull."

"People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists."

"I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life."

"Every action, thought and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect. If we participate in the cause, it is not possible for us not to participate in the effect. In this most profound way, we are held responsible for our every action, thought, and feeling which is to say, for our every intention it is therefore, wise for us to become aware of the many intentions that inform our experience, to sort out which intentions produce which effects, and to choose our intentions according to the effects that we desire to produce."

"You alone are enough."

"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you."

"Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate."

"Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it."

"True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience'."

"Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends."

"When the universe compels me toward the best path to take, it never leaves me with "maybe," "should I," or even "perhaps." I always know for sure when it's telling me to proceed - because everything inside me rises up to reverberate "YES!"

"I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves."

"What I find powerful is a person withthe confidence to be her own self."

"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance."

"Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money."

"It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die."

"Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton."

"A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning."

"Now I'm starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children."

"Keep a grateful journal. Every night list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life."

"If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure."

"You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person."

"If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?"
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