Joshua Oppenheimer (Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer) Quotes
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
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Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.
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Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.
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Different times need different types of leadership.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
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My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
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We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.
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Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.
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There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
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We have to support truth and reconciliation and some form of justice.
