Ellen Pompeo Quotes
I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
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To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.
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I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.
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Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.
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I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.
