Sigourney Weaver (Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver) Quotes
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I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
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To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
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Value is what you get.
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I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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With the block chain, for the first time, we no longer need these central institutions for settlement or for guaranteeing the value of coins or for land titling. All of these functions can be replaced by a transparent public ledger that is safe from tampering and which can make value and ownership clear and open for everyone.
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I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
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I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.
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My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.
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As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
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In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.
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You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
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I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.
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Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.
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If an executive producer has written a certain line, and an actress says it, and it's not very funny, you don't dare go to them and say, 'I don't like this,' because it will make your life miserable.
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If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.
