Stephanie Tubbs Jones Quotes
My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
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I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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If it's boring, then it's tiring.
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Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
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I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!
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There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.
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Che ben pigliar nel crin la buona sorteCarlo sapea, quando volgea la faccia.
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If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.
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Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'
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I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.
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When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when are you getting married?' 'When are you having a kid?' Honestly, those aren't the most important things to me right now.
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In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities - and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving.
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My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
