Cherry Jones Quotes
If you want to have more options as an actor, you just need to watch your weight, and I've ignored that fact for several years quite happily. Now the chicks have come home to roost.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.
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Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.
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If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? If I'm such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it's out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she's sure it's not out of order?
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It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was not designed to lift US out of oppression.
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If you want to have more options as an actor, you just need to watch your weight, and I've ignored that fact for several years quite happily. Now the chicks have come home to roost.
