Sandra Bullock Quotes
You know, people ask, "How does the chemistry happen?" It's like being in a bar when you're drunk. You see the person, and you don't know why, it just works. And it's like everything goes in slow-motion.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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The Internet is part of our evolution. The mystics used to say, 'We can travel across the planet in a thought.' Now we really can. We can be connected with a million people at a time.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.
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Judges decide upon copyright law. They decide upon trademark law. They decide upon scientific issues. They decide upon very complex technical issues on a daily basis. So you must have confidence in the Supreme Court, that they will apply their mind and they will come out with a decision consistent with the Constitution.
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Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'm aware of what skilled journalists they are, but I find it hard because of the corny way they present it.
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Is that a real country?
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See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.
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Divina Natura dedit agros, ars humana ædificavit urbes.
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People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.
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Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.
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I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.
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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
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I grew up in Harlem Grant projects, and I didn't have a whole lot then. I've always been good about only getting what I need, not what I want. Just because someone else has something, I don't feel the need to.
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I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.
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Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.
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Short answers seem like you don't care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting.
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You know, people ask, "How does the chemistry happen?" It's like being in a bar when you're drunk. You see the person, and you don't know why, it just works. And it's like everything goes in slow-motion.
