Paul Farmer Quotes
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.
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For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.
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We want to make the Cleveland Cavaliers a perennial champion and contender. We want people to be part of the franchise for long periods of time if they fit our culture, no matter who they are, whether it's LeBron or anybody that contributes.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Most style is not honest enough.
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When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'
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We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law.
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When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
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Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
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One of the things that I truly have had to learn, sometimes the hard way, but that I'd like to share with you is to trust your own instincts no matter what people might say about you, no matter what criticism or what negativity might come your way for just being who you are, and just being yourself, it's so important. Tonight is your night.
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If you don't need to prove that you are right or that someone else's behavior should be punished, you can better see your way to achieving harmony in any given situation.
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I love reading almost as much as I love writing.
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
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At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
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In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.
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The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
