Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes
The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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I'm definitely a foodie.
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I would love to do some theater.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.
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We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.
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She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.
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It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
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A good fan base has developed around the Hurricanes, and I see the opportunity for continued growth for this franchise in the future.
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A good love story always keeps the pot boiling.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
