Jasmine Guy Quotes
People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.
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I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries.
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It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
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A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.
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Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violence, and rock music for making kids take drugs and kill themselves. These things should be the least of our worries. The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal,' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.
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People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.
