Jodie Foster Quotes
My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
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Failure is a part of success.
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Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
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I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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I am not the type of person who lets the pressure get to him. I try to see it as my friend. I align with it to calm me down.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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It's amazing. I love being an uncle.
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When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.
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My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
