Famke Janssen Quotes
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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We just here to do our job.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particularly in new companies with strong prospects in fields like health care and technology.
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Dreams are never just dreams, they are reality waiting to happen.
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I have done 'Sports Illustrated,' but I don't regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way - as an athlete.
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Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.
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I think if you don't expect anything from the world, you'll have a lovely time.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
