Jodie Foster Quotes
I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?
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What musicals need is a new me.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
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Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
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Perhaps by this time the 14th century was not quite sane. If enlightened self-interest is the criterion of sanity, in the verdict of Michelet, 'no epoch was more naturally mad.'
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I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.
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Boni duces publico certamine numquam nisi ex occasione aut nimia necessitate confligunt.
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When you think of Mitch Leigh as a businessman, remember he's also a composer. And when you think of Mitch Leigh as a composer, remember he's also a businessman.
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I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.
