Miep Gies Quotes
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
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My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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I have this strength that comes from knowledge.
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Bring out the eyes.
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I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.
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Ein Künstler ist, wer sein Centrum in sich selbst hat. Wem es da fehlt, der muss einen bestimmten Führer und Mittler ausser sich wählen.
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I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.
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I get up at 4:30 A.M. pretty much every morning during the week. I work out for an hour and a half. I do weights and I ride the bike, I run or I play tennis. It's my release.
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I remember, years ago, if I had had an opportunity to leave the Lakers, I would have left for one reason: because I did not like an owner that was not telling me the truth. And it would have made no difference what they would have offered me; I would have left.
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Honestly, I didn't like snowboarding when I was a little girl. As I got older, it became something I did with my dad. When I was 10, I knew I was good for my age, but I never felt that I was prodigy-level or anything like that.
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You do not need 435 people playing commander-in-chief.
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Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.
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I know bugger all about golf.
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I have a very high metabolism, and I have to constantly eat to keep on going.
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I could do Daniel Day-Lewis's job as well as him.
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I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
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I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.
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I'm not asking actors to act. I'm asking them to behave. I want to see their being, not how they can fake it.
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'The Wall' is a reaction to 'Edge of Tomorrow,' where I was like, 'I don't need time travel and aliens to take a hero and pin them down in an impossible situation. I can do it in a much simpler way.' And that was 'The Wall.'
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.
