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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Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.
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In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.
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The first 'Star Wars' movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a big deal.
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We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.'
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I can't fall apart every time I mention that my mother's gone. I actually laugh about stories or things or situations. Of course there's a wound that will never be patched up, but I approach it with humor. Of course, I don't overlook it and go straight for the humor, but I think we have to have humor to move forward.
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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.
