Helen Keller Quotes
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.
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There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.
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I like guts in my leaders.
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You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
