Jennifer Beals Quotes
On service Giving feels good. It's a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.
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I have to laugh to myself. I don't find it work to write music, because I enjoy it. I'd find an evening of bridge hard work because you have to think like hell, and at the end, you get nothing for it.
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When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.
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Especially among journalists, politics is not a pursuit that's held in high esteem. We tend to be cynical about it - but I actually believe in democracy.
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On service Giving feels good. It's a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.
