James Lovelock Quotes
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.
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A lot of people of color in the music industry are still more interested in embracing things that are considered white canon, and looking radical. Like when people point to punk in the indie world: If you point to the history of punk as what you see as your legacy, that's more prized and praised.
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All of these different strands in me - the black, the white, the African - all of that has contributed directly to my success because when I meet people, I see a piece of myself in them. And maybe they see a piece of themselves in me.
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I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
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Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.
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There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
