Ralph Bunche Quotes
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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People have to evolve.
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My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.
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As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
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We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.
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My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
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Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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People remain unknowable to us, even people that we're very close to. And I think the same goes for our own selves.
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For anyone who's had a transition in their life - heading off to college, parents sending their kids off to college, people getting out of college and heading off into the workforce. Those are major transitions.
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Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.
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Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.
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There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
