Joan Allen Quotes
I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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I see the Calvin Klein girl as strong, fun, and confident.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.
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Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
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I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
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Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
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I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
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If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the worst president in our history.
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I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.
