Jeff Baena Quotes
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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Baltimore residents deserve a commitment from leaders to deliver meaningful changes and the possibility of a better future, and so does every Marylander who loves our great state.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.
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The direction we are going in at this moment is the negation of material goods as being important and the great importance of spiritual values and sensations. Permissiveness, if you will. There is tremendous talk of sex and bi-sexuality.
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Until space tourism is a destination-based business (e.g. flights to a private space station or to the moon), will flyers pay to fly more than once after having earned their astronaut wings? The answer to this is likely very dependent on the experience itself.
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We always try to make each film different so they don't get repetitive.
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Mads Mikkelsen’s acting is very subtle, precise, nuanced, so he brings something completely different to the character. If you compare Mads’ Hannibal to Anthony Hopkins’ for example. Not to mention that Mads Mikkelsen is very handsome and sexy, so he brings that to the character as well.
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'Motherwort.' 'Great Leopard's Bane.' These are awesome band names.