Joycelyn Elders Quotes
Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I'm not a Republican.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.
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The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
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I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.
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I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.
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When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
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You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.
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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
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I see my work, as being determined by the fact that I was born in 1936.
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On the set, everybody is different, so you have to deal with different sensibilities. I don't have a method. Usually, I try to have a good connection with the actor that I'm filming. Even a guy who's there with two lines of dialogue, I always try to have a connection with the guy I'm filming, just to make it into a nice, enjoyable moment.
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.
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Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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Nothing will divert me from my purpose.
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I’m Edward Clark. Born Edward Delacey. Now, apparently, Viscount Claridge.” He shut his eyes. “You can address me by my preferred title: you idiot.
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Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined.
