Scarlett Johansson Quotes
I campaigned for Barack Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to help get the word out. It was such a huge, spirited campaign, and so positive. But you travel around to cities in the U.S. now and there's just this hopelessness that has set in. It makes it hard to understand why it seems so impossible to make any kind of progressive change with an administration that is seemingly progressive, or why we keep encountering such political roadblocks to change.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
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I was tested against the best.
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
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It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
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Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.
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I campaigned for Barack Obama for more than a year. I was in Iowa, Minnesota, California, Arizona - just traveling around to help get the word out. It was such a huge, spirited campaign, and so positive. But you travel around to cities in the U.S. now and there's just this hopelessness that has set in. It makes it hard to understand why it seems so impossible to make any kind of progressive change with an administration that is seemingly progressive, or why we keep encountering such political roadblocks to change.
