Charlize Theron Quotes
We value men more than women... straight love more than gay love... white skin more than black skin... and adults more than adolescents.
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I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
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From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.
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Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.
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I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
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They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.
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A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
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Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?
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I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.
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My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.
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In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.
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I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.
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We value men more than women... straight love more than gay love... white skin more than black skin... and adults more than adolescents.
