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 have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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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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Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.
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We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive.
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In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.
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Raymond Roussel said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. This is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. It is true that the first text one writes is neither written for others, nor because one is what one is: one writes to become other than what one is. One tries to modify one's way of being through the act of writing.
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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.
