Jodie Foster Quotes

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

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• Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

  

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• We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

  

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• I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.

  

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• Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.

  

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• The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

  

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• It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.

  

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• Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

  

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• Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.

  

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• I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.

  

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• I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.

  

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• Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.

  

  Patrick Wilson
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• Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'

  

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• I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

  

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• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

  

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• I grew up in New York.

  

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• I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.

  

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• Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'

  

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• People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

  

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• You have it or you don't... I think I have it.

  

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• Criticizing people, winding them up, making idiots of them or fooling them doesn't make people with autism laugh. What makes us smile from the inside is seeing something beautiful, or a memory makes us laugh. This generally happens when there's nobody watching us. And at night, on our own, we might burst out laughing underneath the duvet, or roar with later in an empty room ... When we don't need to think about other people or anything else, that's when we wear our aural expressions.

  

  Naoki Higashida
  • Beautiful
  • Night
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• I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Night
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  • Insomnia

• His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times...and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for America, mind you. I kind of think we're all in a really big mess, kind of like the end days of the Roman Empire.

  

  Bob Colacello
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• I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Home
  • Job
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