Herbert Spencer Quotes
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
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I like part-time jobs in restaurants.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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I saw 'Brokeback Mountain' in a packed house in Chelsea, New York, when I was filming a Bollywood film there. Chelsea, being a predominately gay neighbourhood, had the most euphoric reaction. I saw couples holding hands and crying at the end. It was the most heartening viewing I have ever been to.
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I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
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Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It's just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.
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If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.
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Honestly I'm not a huge TV person. The only show that I've seen every episode of is 'Pretty Little Liars.' It's my favorite show. I wish I could get into other shows, but I just don't have time!
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I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
