Charlize Theron Quotes
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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We have to have workers that will produce more and will stop work when it is not needed.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.
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If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up.
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.
