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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A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.
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Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting.
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I've been a total Tom Waits dork for a long, long time.
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As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.
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When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.
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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.
