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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When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
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I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.
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I always tell my students, 'If you walk around with your eyes and ears open, you can't possibly live long enough to write all the novels you'll encounter.'
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Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.
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Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.
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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.
