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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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 remember having a conversation with my sister, saying, 'What if I don't make it? What if I'm still waiting tables when I'm 35?' I was just at the end of my rope. But I've been at the end of that rope several times.
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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
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I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.
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Guys need to know when to take charge.
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Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.
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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.
