Jessica Chastain Quotes
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
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I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
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We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.
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To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.
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I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long
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For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.
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Like a steely blade in a silken sheathWe don't see what they're made ofThey shout about love, but when push comes to shoveThey live for the things they're afraid ofAnd the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them...- The Weapon (Part II of 'Fear') (1982)
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I don't really know any survival skills of any kind.
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A segregated spiritual subculture does women no good, even if it does have adorable butterflies in the logo.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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I can't see. I used to wear glasses off stage. Now I'm thinking of getting a pair of contract lenses.
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No one ever recognizes me.
