Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes
Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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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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The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.
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I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.
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When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?'
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What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.
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For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.
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I know that when I get in there and I leave that cage I will leave with more than I came in.
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Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.
