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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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
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I only really like to watch things like 'Time Team.' I'd rather be out walking the dog. It's all reality TV, which, as an actor, I detest.
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The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
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The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
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I felt like Twitter was more of a place for people to just socialize instead of promoting. After I got off, I realized I could have used that energy and that lane to really promote some positivity. I had 35,000 followers before I left. I was like, "Damn those were 30,000 consumers." It kind of twisted my whole thought process so I got back on. I realized that I have a voice that people wanted to hear.
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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.
