Geena Davis Quotes
We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
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And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!
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Discussing coronation ceremonies with Vidal, 'I quickly moved on to...the moment when two masons appear and ask the newly crowned king for instructions as to his tomb. 'Masons? Masons! Yes. You one? I'm one. But I've forgotten all the odds and ends. Dull, really.' (Vidal, Palimpsest, 206)
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I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.
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That's the thing about musicians: The priority is to create something new that's never been before. And you put your life on the line every time that you play.
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I do much less sparring and always with the purpose of working on something in particular.
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We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.
