Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
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I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
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Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
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I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
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A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former acts as a restriction on the powers of this government, but the latter as an enlargement.
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Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.
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I do not care for musicals. In fact, I hate them.
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Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.
