Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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The development of methods to monitor protein dynamics in cells together with the discovery of specific and general lysosomal inhibitors have resulted in the identification of different classes of cellular proteins, long- and short-lived, and the findings of the differential effects of the inhibitors on these groups.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.
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In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
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Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.
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Every girl likes to just rock out when they put music on in their room - I learned that personally when fans would tell us how much they loved to make up their own dances to Cheetah Girls songs.
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If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.
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The truth is, the less a subject had to do with the visible world, the more talented I was at solving problems.
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Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
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A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
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One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve.
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[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
