Thandie Newton (Melanie Thandiwe) Quotes
If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
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Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.
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What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.
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A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.
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One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.
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I always wanted to win. Everyone has a bit of that in them, but I have even more of a will to win. Sometimes I might go overboard, whereas there are others who, yes, they want to win, but if they don't, it's no big deal for them.
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Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.
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I understand and accept that for the people of Munich, only the treble will do.
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I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound of computers; it's too dull, like it's not doing anything for you.
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From day 1, Justin Timberlake has been a huge inspiration for me.
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Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months.
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I do think it's important not to be absolutely sure, so sure that you can't reinvent yourself in some way, or at least rediscover the truth of why you think what you think, and not just take it as an assumption.
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To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.
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If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.
