Jane Fonda Quotes
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.
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When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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I think it's great fun sometimes when I am playing golf, just to give it a little uch, is to bet the other guy five bucks a hole or something like that.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
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Introductions are always weird for me because my name is Hari and it's constantly mispronounced . 'Hurry', 'Hairy' – there are different ways to screw it up, and it leads to these awkward conversations.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
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Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.
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Just as we have had great working lives, we have also had good personal lives. For instance, we have made school our number one priority. We have been in school our entire lives with kids our own age. We guess that's pretty regular.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.
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We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
