Geena Davis Quotes
If I go to hotels, they always say, 'Welcome back', even when I've never been there before.
Quotes to Explore
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Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.
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The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.
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I've always had great faith in people.
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There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.
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We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.
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I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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Our value proposition to consumers is so much more about completeness than freshness. Having the complete season is so much more valuable, in our business model, than having last night's episode.
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When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.
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I would encourage everyone in their first job not to ask themselves, 'Where do I want to be?' but 'What do I want to learn from this?' Use that opportunity to be a sponge.
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And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.
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Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.
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If I go to hotels, they always say, 'Welcome back', even when I've never been there before.
