Brie Larson (Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers) Quotes
Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.
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The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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Its a touchy subject, 'cause I never want to take it there, where it seems like it's all about race. But I feel like that's something that comes along with the territory of being a black quarterback. When you have success - 'Oh, you're a freak athlete.' Not, 'Oh, you're a good quarterback.'
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Ellen Galinsky's surveys at the Families and Work Institute pointed to a desirable norm for many parents for working not full-time, but part-time. And I get that. I mean, Norway has a 35-hour work week. That counts as part-time for us in the United States, you know. And Norway's doing well, by the way.
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In 'The Big Chill,' those characters are in middle age, thinking, 'Oh, God, I've turned into my parents. I've failed.' And in 'Beside Still Waters,' we're showing the struggles of people who actually want to be like their parents and feel they can't live up to their heights.
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Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic.
