Hampton Sides Quotes
I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.
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When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.
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I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame.
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You're only as good as your last haircut.
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This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.
