Jean Nouvel Quotes
If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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Nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.
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We might have a chance now to rebuild it all with what we have left. We might have learned that we can exist only as a part of nature, not apart from nature.
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I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.
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Eloquence is logic on fire.
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If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!
