Hampton Sides Quotes
I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
Quotes to Explore
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.
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Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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Show me a poet, and I'll show you a shit.
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Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
