Paulo Freire Quotes
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People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
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Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.
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In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
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I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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On the whole, I'd rather be in Philidelphia.
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There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.
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I don't really get recognised very much.
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Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
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I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.
Gail Devers -
I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
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Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
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Every blossom I see reminds me of you
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When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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I get called 'Memphis Eve,' but my first name is Eve. I know Memphis is in there somewhere, but on my passport I'm 'Eve Sunny Day Hewson.
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I loved 'Top Gun.' I watched it all growing up.
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Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.
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For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese.
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I am an educator who thinks globally.
