Jeremy Howard Quotes
Acting was always something fun to do on the side growing up, but I never really took it seriously. I would do a commercial every few months, and that paid my school tuition. But in high school, I was mostly into sports and didn't go out for stuff during those seasons.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
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I have been an Avengers fan since the middle 1960s. I grew up with them, and I've imagined a hundred different versions of an Avengers movie. I think I even have a script I wrote back in eighth grade, 'Avengers vs. the Mole Man.' Truly dreadful, but a work of love.
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If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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It is important that you appreciate that the workplace must be a place of empowerment, but the empowerment must not only be connected to the job that you do.
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A great script might come my way, and I could be in the middle of music. So, it's a huge choice that I have to make - if I'm going to go do a movie or if I'm going to turn it down - because it could be an opportunity that could send my career through the roof, and you never know.
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Acting was always something fun to do on the side growing up, but I never really took it seriously. I would do a commercial every few months, and that paid my school tuition. But in high school, I was mostly into sports and didn't go out for stuff during those seasons.
