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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I support anyone finding their worth despite being told they can't do something.
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For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.
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Being a model, you're constantly judged on the way you look, but I think you have to be really strong and confident in knowing who you are and not take anything personally, you know, because not everybody can like you, and not everybody will think you're beautiful.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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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.
