Susan Sarandon (Susan Abigail Sarandon) Quotes
It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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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 exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.
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If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.
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Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.
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I think the past is not important. For every player, for every single player, the past stay there. If you did well in the past, OK.
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The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
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It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child's interest in the game itself. The essential thing to do is practise often and, in case of a doubt, to consult a trainer.
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It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.
