Jane Addams Quotes
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
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In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
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I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.
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There's nothing clever that hasn't been thought of before - you've just got to try to think it all over again.
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In the past we couldn't talk to non-union workers. Now we can at least talk to non-union workers so we'll be mobilizing them and educating them not for just six or eight months before an election, but we'll be doing it year-round.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.
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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
