Jennifer Beals Quotes
What’s shocking is to see six-year-old children jump roping in the street at 2:00 a.m.-that’s shocking-a block away from drug dealers. Just to see that the gap in the circle is education, in my mind, primarily for young women, because it’s the young women that are raising the kids and that’s where the circle, I think, perpetuates itself.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.
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Our island is this earth; and the most striking object we behold is the sun. As soon as we pass beyond our immediate surroundings, one or both of these must meet our eye. Thus the philosophy of most savage races is mainly directed to imaginary divisions of the earth or to the divinity of the sun.
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We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
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Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.
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We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.
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There are days that I love just devoting to going to the park and playing with my son, but then sometimes you have to leave out other things, or if work is a full day of work, perhaps I miss the play time with my son, and I guess the only struggle is trying to not shortchange any of the things that you want to do.
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What’s shocking is to see six-year-old children jump roping in the street at 2:00 a.m.-that’s shocking-a block away from drug dealers. Just to see that the gap in the circle is education, in my mind, primarily for young women, because it’s the young women that are raising the kids and that’s where the circle, I think, perpetuates itself.
