Melina Mercouri Quotes
We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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No one person is an island.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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Many senior policemen put greater emphasis on maintaining 'order' than on upholding the law. In practice that meant failing to uphold the rights of individuals against the rule of the mob.
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Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
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I hope my daughter, and one day my granddaughters, will be at Dodgers Opening Day.
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At present the national budget plays a very large role in the whole financial policy of our country.
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We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.
