Jennifer Beals Quotes
About compassion You can have the ‘golden rule’-do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther-where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'
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We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.
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It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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How we ask the question is extremely important to how we find the answer.
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About compassion You can have the ‘golden rule’-do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther-where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.
