Iris Chang Quotes
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I know what poverty is.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
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I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
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And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.
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With so much at risk, you might expect Australia to be at the forefront of the clean-energy revolution and the international effort to cut carbon pollution. After all, the continent's vast, empty deserts were practically designed for solar-power installations.
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No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and dreams to their government.
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A disability can be anything that you are insecure about, and I teach people that when challenges come your way, you need to face them, you need to embrace these new norms and these challenges, and you need to defy them and conquer them.
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For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
