Charlize Theron Quotes
At the end of the day, I'd much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and intriguing and moving, versus really carrying some kind of heavy political agenda on my sleeve. That's not who I am.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
Gail Devers -
Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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I am mentally strong.
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When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.
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I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.
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Got your mama and sister dabbing.
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
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At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.
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To me, there's no great chef without a great team.
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You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.
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We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or an egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it, is it not.
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The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
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We don't have a particular plan. We just do what we do. This is the only way we know how to do it. We make the music that moves us. We use it as therapy. The songs are cathartic. They're ways of dealing with life experiences and the world around you. It's meant to be as a release for us as it is for other people.
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I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.
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When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.
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I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica.
Elliott Erwitt -
At the end of the day, I'd much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and intriguing and moving, versus really carrying some kind of heavy political agenda on my sleeve. That's not who I am.
