Afia Nathaniel Quotes
I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
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I just grill chicken and make very simple cuisine.
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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
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'Lost in Translation' was a year of my life, if not more, and then 'Marie Antoinette' was about three years of my life.
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Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
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Our economy has been at risk by investment schemes aimed at making not just a few, but many extra dollars, and we need to start insisting on the right rules and transparency so this doesn't happen again.
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Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again.
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Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
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I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.
