Haider Ackermann Quotes
I think that's a luxury - to have a nomadic life and to be a kind of bohemian. You feel totally free and you can adapt yourself very easily. But at the same time you can totally lose balance, because you don't know where you belong anymore.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
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TV's been good to me.
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The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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I am trained, and I did do 'The Nutcracker' in its right form, but at the time, they told me I was black and I'd never be in 'Swan Lake.' I went through all those prejudices in the ballet community, and I still emerged wonderfully trained and found my way to Alvin Ailey where there were familiar faces.
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I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life.
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It's great that Time is moving in the direction of validating those who, by choice or circumstance, will never be parents. But the point is not simply that society should stop judging those of us who don't have children. It's that society actually needs us. Children need us.
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I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
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I think that's a luxury - to have a nomadic life and to be a kind of bohemian. You feel totally free and you can adapt yourself very easily. But at the same time you can totally lose balance, because you don't know where you belong anymore.
