Bill Dixon Quotes
While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.
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Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.
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There's this perception that there's a pipeline problem for women and people of color. I don't buy into that. I think we have a broken doorbell problem, and there are plenty of women and people of color standing at the doorstep trying to get in the door, and nobody's opening it.
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I am a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino, who takes time to figure out what his next movie is.
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While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.
