David Hume Quotes
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman.
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
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When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
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Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.
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What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.
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What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.
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Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.
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The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
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Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight hours a day!
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You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.
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When I first watched Bette Davis in 'All About Eve', I was struck by how much I felt that she is Margo Channing and that she's Bette Davis, where she was able to do both, where you're like, 'What an icon.'
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The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
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We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.
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I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'
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I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.
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I want to work on interesting parts that I can believe in.
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Hypothetical liberty is allowed to everyone who is not a prisoner and in chains
