Gayle Rankin Quotes
I always get compared to looking like a silent movie star - though I don't know if that's a compliment, honestly.

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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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I've had every hair style imaginable.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
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When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.
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The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.
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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
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God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
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We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.
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A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have health issues of their own, and a lot of people need them. That's why the list is long and it takes a long time.
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I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.
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The way we work at Pixar is we write the script, but then we quickly move on into story reel, which is basically like a comic-book version of the film. And then we do our own dialogue and music and sound effects, all in an effort to be able to basically sit in the theater and watch the movie before we shoot it, essentially.
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At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
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When you reach a point of no return with someone and you feel there's going to be no reconciliation, you have to disconnect. I can't allow myself to be emotionally connected with people like that again, it's too damaging.
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I always get compared to looking like a silent movie star - though I don't know if that's a compliment, honestly.