Joanna Coles Quotes
I don't like the tropes, particularly in my industry, that the senior women are mean to the junior staff.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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I enjoy my life.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
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What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
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People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.
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I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.
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It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived in, we're not talking about poverty in a day when it meant not enough bedrooms for the kids, an old car, a black and white television. We're talking about a whole world where poverty meant not enough to eat.
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I don't like the tropes, particularly in my industry, that the senior women are mean to the junior staff.
