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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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 -
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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We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
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Jonathan Franzen seems like the grumpiest guy, and he doesn't seem to like much of anything, so I really don't care what he has to say.
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Somewhere down the line, the evil ones stole the legacy of hip hop and flipped it to a corporate type of hip hop. They decided to tell everybody 'Well, this is what hip hop is,' instead of coming back to the pioneers and getting the true definition of what hip hop is and what it was and what we been pushing for all these years.
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A lot of people who can afford a vehicle are deciding against owning one. They just need access to transport. So, our job is to offer wider choices to consumers with more innovative models.
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
