Christina Ricci Quotes
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My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
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I love doing yoga and also enjoy going for regular walks.
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My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
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It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.
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You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
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I am not called Cugel the Clever for nothing.
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For all the dreams we've dreamed And all the songs we've sung And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung, The millions who have nothing for our pay - Except the dream that's almost dead today.
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'White Teeth' has far too many characters, and its plot is tortured. But Smith has an astonishing intellect. She writes sharp dialogue for every age and race - and she's funny as hell.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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The world is changing very profoundly.
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I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.
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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
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I didn't use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.
