Geoff Dyer Quotes
Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't learn the true consequences of it.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
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I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.
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To such a memorial as exists here we can only come in a spirit of humility and of gratitude. We can not hope to repay those whom we are assembled to honor. They were moved by a noble conception of human possibilities and human destiny. But we can undertake to find what was their inspiration and seek to make it our guide. By that they will be recompensed.
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When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
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I will choose only the least harmful way for the country. And that is the greatest benefit I am conferring on the country by embracing Buddhism; for Buddhism is a part and parcel of Bhâratîya culture. I have taken care that my conversion will not harm the tradition of the culture and history of this land.'
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Always work on the things you're not good at, because once you develop skills in those areas, you have no more fears.
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There are right and wrong reasons for doing solo projects, and this album was done for the right reasons. At the time there was no Judas Priest and I certainly wasn't going to hang my hat up on my musical career.
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Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't learn the true consequences of it.
