Sam Taylor-Wood Quotes
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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When Marvin Gaye made his music, he evoked this feeling that would reach everybody.
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When you have a girlfriend, there are many things that are irritating every day, every night. I'm sure it's different for everyone, but when you fight, it gets really annoying.
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I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels.
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I don't want to spread myself so thin that I achieve nothing.
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I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
