Victor Ponta Quotes
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting that those aspirations are for the best and greatest things. But with regard to the Negroes in America, there is a feeling that their aspirations in some way are not consistent with the great ideals.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
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I think polo players are at their best in their 30s. You've got the talent and the experience. You play with your head - you learn to lose and how to win.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.
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Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'
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The precious moments of life are too rare, too valuable to be forgotten when they have passed; we should hoard them as a miser hoards his gold, and bring them to light and rejoice over them often. We should all of us have a treasury of happy memories to sustain us when life is unbearably cruel, to brighten the gloom a little, to be stars shining through the darkness.
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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
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There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.
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From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.
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The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.
