Naomi Watts Quotes
There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
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If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.
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International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.
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I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.
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I was one of the first early Twitter users from the film fraternity. And back then in 2009, I thought I was going to enter a world where people liked me, knew me, knew my work - it was going to be fine! All about the love, not the hate. And it was. At first.
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
