Jodie Foster Quotes

I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.

Jodie Foster

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• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  

  Larry Hovis
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• I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

  

  Carl Paladino
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• So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

  Sally Watson
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• I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
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• I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.

  

  Banks
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• I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

  

  Tamara Mellon
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• You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

  

  J. Cole
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  • Money
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• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
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• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
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• I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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• If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
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• I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Idea
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• Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.

  

  Adam Hochschild
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• Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.

  

  Karen Mills
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• Life in New York can be so, I don't know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.

  

  Aaron Lazar
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• Knowledge is sacred and the choice to be informed or merely entertained in today's world is a very revealing test of the times. Expanding your mind to penetrate the deeper meanings of life is not only liberating, it is crucial to your well-being, for knowledge is power, and how you use your power inevitably determines the course of your personal and collective life.

  

  Barbara Marciniak
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• When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist.

  

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• Marriage advice to Dan Pfeiffer in Yes We Still Can, chapter 9, (19 June 2018); as quoted in 'Barack Obama says these are the three questions you must ask someone before you marry them', by Narjas Zatat, The Independent, (7 July 2018).

  

  Barack Obama
  • Marriage
  • Advice
  • Independent

• It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.

  

  Joe Nichols
  • Up
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• My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home.

  

  Amanda Holden
  • Home
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• I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Desire
  • Personality