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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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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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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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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I'm the gypsy man. I don't really live anywhere. I've got a roof over my head in Los Angeles, and I've got a lot of friends everywhere.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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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.
