Aaron Eckhart Quotes
It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Let us have peace.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.
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It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.
