Mila Kunis Quotes
My parents went through hell and back. They came to America with suitcases and a family of seven and $250, and that's it.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.
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I love TV. I love the stability of it.
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As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
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When you have a watch on, it just sets everything off. It's the icing on the cake when it comes to your entire look.
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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
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Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.
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'I hate you, I hate you!' cried Madeline, a thing I didn't know anyone ever said except in the second act of a musical comedy.
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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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I didn't have a fraternity-like experience. I mean, I grew up with an older brother and a lot of male cousins and we were very physical with each other. We were very rambunctious when we were kids. But I never thought much - nor did I have reason to think much - about institutionalized hazing. But I think there's a reason young men are drawn to it.
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The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.
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Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.
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The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.
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My parents went through hell and back. They came to America with suitcases and a family of seven and $250, and that's it.
