Florence Griffith Joyner Quotes
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
Jacob Batalon
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
Kanye West
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If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
Tariq Ramadan
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
Cara Delevingne
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
Jack O'Brien
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
Van Morrison
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
Ha-Joon Chang
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
J. Michael Straczynski
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
Dan Brown
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
Victor Borge
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
Baltasar Kormakur
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What I worry about ultimately is that when we're stripped of our privacy, when we're stripped of free will, when we start to merge with machines in a more robust way, at some point, we'll cease to be identifiably human. And therefore, I think our humanity is, in some ways, the thing that's under existential threat.
Franklin Foer
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I'm more careful about my hands than about what I eat and most anything else, because my hands have been my living. My hands have been able to help me learn. My hands have taken me around the world. So I'm very proud of my hands.
B. B. King
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They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.
Fay Wray
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Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
Florence Griffith Joyner