Scilla Elworthy Quotes
Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.
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Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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My parents do a lot of things behind the scenes that go unnoticed.
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I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21.
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I know I don't look edgy, but I have found that in my personality, I just have this natural energy that I enjoy edgier characters, and I really want a chance to sink my teeth into something like that.
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We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.
