Jalal Talabani Quotes
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
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When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.
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I don't think politics and sport should be mixed up.
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Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.
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I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.
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Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
