Jennifer Connelly Quotes
I met David Bowie when I was 14, and he became a hero to me - because he was an artist, and because he was a genius who had the time to be kind. I'd never met such an extraordinary artist before, and I haven't since - the world will be a greyer place without him.
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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The support I've gotten from my teammates has been great.
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The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.
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It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.
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There's all kind of things going on in the world that I don't like but I can't change. But at least I can say, 'Change the way you eat!'
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I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books - I never would have imagined that. Getting a Ph.D. - I'm not sure I would even have imagined that. I've lived my life a step at a time. Things sort of happened.
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I met David Bowie when I was 14, and he became a hero to me - because he was an artist, and because he was a genius who had the time to be kind. I'd never met such an extraordinary artist before, and I haven't since - the world will be a greyer place without him.
