Chief Joseph Quotes
It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Every boss I've ever had has challenged me, pushed me, believed in me, and led by example.
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If I come on three days after the Super Bowl and say pretty much what everybody else has said, what's the point? That was the tricky thing... coming up with a new angle every time - or most times, because you couldn't bat a thousand.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.
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I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.
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It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
