Caitlin Doughty Quotes
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
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There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.
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Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation.
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I fundamentally believe that no one can teach you how to write - finding out how to write a story is part of the process of creating a story - but you can really learn through exposure to different writing, to different art forms, to different modes of storytelling, and with mentors who are able to get you to step outside your comfort zone.
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I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
