Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Quotes
I am, like everybody else, hurt when the thing I've done is misunderstood or attacked but I've gotten old enough to realize that if you do something, not everybody's got to like it. And if everybody likes it, it's probably not that interesting.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.
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When you go in and guest-star on a TV show, they already have their family - everybody pretty much knows everybody, and everyone sort of has that base already formed.
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It is less than four years since cohomological methods (i.e. methods of Homological Algebra) were introduced into Algebraic Geometry in Serre's fundamental paper
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Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
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I think most people live in a space where they are looking for meaning in life and good in the world and that is not necessarily reflected in straight news coverage right now.
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The status quo is simply unacceptable.
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It may sound cliched, but 'Strictly' is a real journey. I try to encourage my partner to stay in as long as they can, but above all to enjoy it.
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As I get older, I start to look back at the field that I've crossed and realize that it was a mine field.
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I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.
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Know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um and know when to walk away from cameramen.
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What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.
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Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.
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There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
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What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?
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Computing is becoming universal.
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Being able to live without having to be defined by your skin color is the hallmark of privilege.
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My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head spin about what they deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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I am, like everybody else, hurt when the thing I've done is misunderstood or attacked but I've gotten old enough to realize that if you do something, not everybody's got to like it. And if everybody likes it, it's probably not that interesting.
