Ernest Shackleton Quotes
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
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I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
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Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.
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Study the field that you want to get into and know everything about it.
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Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.
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There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it's clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone.
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You can do too much and oversell your market.
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I don't want, under any circumstances, to see in 'Haaretz' a picture of a woman with a baby in her arms crying while policemen deport her.
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I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.
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I don't read much of anything online.
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There's something so arrogant about us creating robots that are more and more human-looking or acting. It's like we're playing God. Let's create something that's a reflection of us, but it's inferior.
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I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.
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It was the old New York way of taking life 'without effusion of blood': the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than 'scenes,' except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.
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Optimism is true moral courage.
