John Hume Quotes
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.
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Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice and a tone that is unlike any other.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'
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One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.
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We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.
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I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.
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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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Strategically we should despise all our enemies, while tactically we should take them all seriously.
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It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves.
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Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.
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The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.
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I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that's dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.
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You should never use the camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience to make the picture with the camera. Not the other way around.
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We did not seek ideological confrontation.
