Abigail Adams Quotes
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.
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I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
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It is impossible to interpret Jesus as a violent person. Violence is contrary to the Kingdom of God, it is a tool of the Antichrist. Violence never serves humanity, but dehumanizes.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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. . . the sin of abortion, or the destruction of unborn children - lies somewhere a close kin to the crime of destroying human life and certainly to be condemned.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
