Jessica Chastain Quotes
My goal is that a girl will watch 'The Martian' or 'Interstellar' and think, 'I want to be an astronaut or a quantum physicist.' It's important to show powerful women who are good at their jobs because young girls need those examples.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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The keener the want the lustier the growth.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
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James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong – he's good.
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I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
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Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
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There's only so much I can do to effect change - and really, the thing that I can do that's most effective is to work and to do good work. That, I feel, is speaking out in its own way.
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A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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I think what I do for a living is a privilege, so at the very least, I'd like to think it can be a good time.
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My goal is that a girl will watch 'The Martian' or 'Interstellar' and think, 'I want to be an astronaut or a quantum physicist.' It's important to show powerful women who are good at their jobs because young girls need those examples.
