Jessica Mitford Quotes
Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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I do feel pressure internally and externally to put out music, but that excites me because I love songwriting, and this brings me back to why I got in music in the first place, so I'm excited about that.
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I'm constantly being visually stimulated.
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Innovating today is about creativity; it is about the freedom to act... if you look at the big conglomerate... it's highly regulated. It's a lot of talk about... internal controls and this and that... so there's a huge mindshift change to get the best of people.
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Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
