Charlize Theron Quotes

I do think that when you're specifically working in a country like South Africa, you have to be able to be aware of the cultural truth of what people are raised in and believe in and how they function within their society.

Charlize Theron

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• To be is to do.

  

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• The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.

  

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• I never was a very good singer.

  

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• I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.

  

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• There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

  

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• My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

  

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• They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

  

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• They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

  

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• My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

  

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• I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.

  

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• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

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• Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.

  

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• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

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• I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.

  

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• I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.

  

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• I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.

  

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• Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.

  

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• Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

  

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• I think the really significant part of it for us, for the western world, is we have a lot to gain from the Tibetans - there are certain lessons that are within Tibetan culture. I mean understandings of compassion and of nonviolence that are things that we really lack in our society.

  

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• I am entering into the truth, into nature.

  

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• I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

  

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• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  

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• When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

  

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• I do think that when you're specifically working in a country like South Africa, you have to be able to be aware of the cultural truth of what people are raised in and believe in and how they function within their society.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Truth