Jodie Foster Quotes
I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?
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I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think about doing some kind of weird jazz record, but I don't know... It's on my list of things to do. I don't want to have to then go promote it.
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I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.
