Jodi Picoult Quotes
Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.
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I don't live for my work. My life is my life. That's more important, and I think that helps my work.
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My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.
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You know, the art films would usually be more, I mean the exploitation movies would usually be more lurid, but not that much more. I mean, actually back in those days that was what foreign films had. They had sex, they were selling Laura Antonelli.
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There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent.But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.
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[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.
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Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.
