Jodie Foster Quotes

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

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• Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?

  

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• I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.

  

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• Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

  

  Walt Whitman
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• Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.

  

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• I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
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• But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

  

  Hari Kunzru
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• If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Good
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• There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Business
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• 'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • World
  • School
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• This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it's all about and that's why for me the FA Cup and the Carling Cup are the best cups in the world. That's the beauty of the cup.

  

  Ian Rush
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  • Day

• Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
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• Whaling was the oil business of its day.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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• Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.

  

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• I'm like 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Different
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• One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in – I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
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• 'Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba...May His name be celebrated and sanctified...' whispered my father.For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?

  

  Elie Wiesel
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• I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Why
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• Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Life

• I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • Never
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• Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Why
  • Business
  • Cowboy