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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Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
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I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?'
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We look for the scrappy entrepreneur: the kind of person who will get things done without looking to spend money right away.
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Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best.
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If people are going to give, they're going to give. And it doesn't matter if you give a dollar or five dollars or a hundred dollars or a million dollars; it's all according to your ability.
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
