Hamid Karzai Quotes
Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Sympathy is the surest destruction of selfishness. Children, like the grown person, grow the better for participation in the sufferings where their own only share is pity.
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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.
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That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
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It's painful to consider anything but writing.
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You cannot denude the presidency of the substance and power of its office. It can't be done.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
