Helen Keller Quotes
The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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My role models have kept on changing.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.
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I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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'Driving while black' was taught to me at a young age.
Colson Whitehead -
I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.
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The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
