Jemima Kirke Quotes
I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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I think people thought I was crazy for leaving Mexico when I had any project I wanted falling at my feet. But I risked everything to come to Los Angeles, where no one knew who I was, and start all over again. It was a very hard step to take. However, it was the moment I thought it was right to take a risk in my career.
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I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.
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I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don’t just go ahead and be happy.
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The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.
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I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.
