Abdullah ibn Mubarak Quotes
We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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I don't know why people feel that I am snooty. I am not a person who has ever given an interview on image building. I have never been that person, as I am very confident of what I do. People do PR, but I get completely foxed. I don't know how to do it. I stay away from the limelight, as I think my work should speak on my behalf.
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I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is.
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A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.
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I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
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Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.
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We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.
