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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il Zénon savait fort bien qu'il n'existe aucun accommodement durable entre ceux qui cherchent, pèsent, dissèquent, et s'honorent d'être capables de penser demain autrement qu'aujourd'hui, et ceux qui croient ou affirment croire, et obligent sous peine de mort leurs semblables à en faire autant.
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One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know?
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Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.
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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
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Let me close by bearing witness (and my nine decades on this earth fully qualify me to say this) that the older I get, the more I realize that family is the center of life and is the key to eternal happiness.
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There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
