Brit Marling Quotes
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.
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Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.
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There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
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Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.
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Anyone is welcome to hang out with me and have fun or sit down with me and talk. I don't discriminate against anyone. And I don't condone hating someone or treating them badly because they live differently than I do.
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I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.
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Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
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If the scope of freedom and respect for the rule of law shrinks around the world, the likelihood of war within and between nations increases, and our own freedoms will eventually be threatened.
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Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.
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Compassion is contempt with a human face.
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Scientists who do deny their politics—who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex—are fooling both themselves and the public at large.
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One has to respect the preferences of another creature, no matter its size, and I did so gladly.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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I feel like collaboration in music has allowed me to grow musically beyond my wildest dreams.
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I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.
