Abbe Pierre Quotes
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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I'm a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis's house and watch 'X Factor.'
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
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God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.
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The first job I ever did in the theatre, I was supposed to be a genius piano player. I couldn't play the piano, but you just sit there at a piano like you're playing, and suddenly all this amazing music comes out and the audience believes you can do it. It's the same with computers. I love scenes where there are people yanking at monitors, "yes I'll put you through now," and you know they're just doing that. But you can look brilliant at all this technology. I love it.
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
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We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget that the different provinces of India are gradually coming closer to one another and a new nationality which comprises not only the different provinces but the whole of India is growing up in our midst and we cannot forget that our interests, even our selfish interests, our hopes, our ambitions are indissolubly connected with the interest of the empire.
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Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
