Jodie Foster Quotes
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I get bored easily.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
Garry Kasparov -
For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
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However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.
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You have to be able to do everything as a quarterback, and that's not necessarily taking care of your job but making sure you're preparing everyone else to go out and play well. And make sure you have them in the right mindset when they step on the field.
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I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice.
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My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.
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I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.
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Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.
