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I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.
Jane Pauley

Success, Successful, Person

Guys who are unavailable are actually a dream come true for me because I'm unavailable all the time. It's great they're not down your throat.
Leighton Meester

Time, Great, Down

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
Lawrence Clark Powell

Great, End, Greatness

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
Dorothy L. Sayers

Love, God, Experience

I think when people see that you are shy, or even just calm, collected and reserved, they think you can be pushed around, made to do everything they want - but that's definitely not true of me. The people closest to me know that's not the case. They know I'm not a pushover.
Leona Lewis

Everything, Made, Around

I don't really read the tabloids, and you never know if what's being printed is true or not.
Leona Lewis

Read, Tabloids, Printed

People will always show their true selves in the end.
Leona Lewis

End, Show, Selves

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.
Vinoba Bhave

It will be a dream come true if I can go there and lift it.
Steven Gerrard

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet

History, Real, Same

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.
Mos Def

Art, Last, Folk

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.
Chaim Potok

Beauty, Home, Patriotism

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
Michael Faraday

Nature, Nothing, Wonderful

It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.
Karlheinz Stockhausen

Time, Eyes, Ears

I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
Gary Numan

Music, Good, Happy

You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Understand, Personal, Stay

Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.
Gary Vaynerchuk

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
Nikki Giovanni

Made, Same, Said

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Nicholas M. Butler

Courage, Optimism, Progress

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now; they think that's going to sort things out.
Jarvis Cocker

Dreams, Faith, Society

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

God, Future, Children

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.
Emmanuelle Beart

Days, Less, Student

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
Carrie Fisher

Fake, Find, Everybody

You can't find true affection in Hollywood because everyone does the fake affection so well.
Carrie Fisher

Fake, Find, Everyone

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
Arnold Bennett

Hope, Long, Saying

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
Phillips Brooks

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
Phillips Brooks

Life, God, Greatness

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.
Jamie Foxx

Everything, Try, Honest

There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.
Tracey Emin

Saying, Said, Wrong

It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
Barbara Corcoran

Real, Find, Able

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