No one's going to tell me how to make my own choices. For too many years, everybody told me what to say and what to do and how to be. - Rita Moreno

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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity. ― Joseph Stalin

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Mellowing has never done much for me. You need to keep moving. - Rita Moreno

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All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism. - Rita Moreno

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Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy. - Rita Moreno

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All the support and opportunity started and then Le Mans became the pipe dream, the thing to aim for, the end of the rainbow.- Chris Hoy

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My video has a lot to do with the inside of a woman. Usually, exercise videos refer to exteriors only. They never talk to a woman where she lives - in her heart and soul. I do that at the beginning and end of mine. - Rita Moreno

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Ronald Reagan became, you know, not only a Republican but a pretty conservative Republican - not the most. But a pretty conservative Republican. And he's somebody that I actually knew and liked. And he liked me. And I worked with him and helped him. -Donald Trump

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I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli. - Hugh Jackman

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I call myself the hardware shelf. There's a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn't ask for it, I didn't beg for it, I didn't pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments - but it's good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned. - Rita Moreno

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