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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Self-doubt kills talent.
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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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My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.
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When the last thousand years, when India lived a life of shame, humiliation and stagnation, other parts of the world experienced not less than three revolutions, making three successive stages of human progress. India also must make that experience, if she is to come abreast with the advanced members of the human family. Should that take a thousand years, others would, during that time, march much farther ahead, and the process of human progress accelerates in proportion to its advance. So in order to catch up with the time lost, India must live in a few years the life lived by others over a period of thousand years.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about whether we believe in civil rights for all people or not. As Black people we need to remember the moment that we say it's okay to disenfranchise one segment of society, we're opening the door to move backward on ourselves.
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Compunet was fantastic. You could upload these little demos of what you'd been working on, and it was a really nice social scene - years before the Internet.
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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.
