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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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• To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.

  

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• The feather was a thing, when I was a kid, we used to find feathers around the house, and whenever we found them, my mum used to say it was my nan leaving them around for us to find, so that was quite sweet.

  

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• Along with opportunities, there also exist many other tricky and complex issues to be managed in India. These include tackling both policy-level challenges and infrastructure challenges.

  

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• Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.

  

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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