Harold B. Lee Quotes
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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We need new energy back in Washington.
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I want more images onscreen because when I was growing up, I think, like, that one kiss in 'The Color Purple' was the one thing that I had. Or 'The Watermelon Woman.'
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The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
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Bigotry doesn't care about state or regional lines. It's all over the place. But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it's about perception and balance sometimes I think.
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I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.
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The greatest waste in all the world is living below our potential.
