Vanessa Diffenbaugh Quotes
I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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I treat my career like it just happened yesterday.
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I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff.
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It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.
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I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.
