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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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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Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.
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Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
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First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.
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It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.
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I think we're always looking for an excuse to connect.
