Hank Green Quotes
I don't think any of us are blameless when we all, more and more often, see ourselves not as members of a culture but as weapons in a war.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.
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Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.
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I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal that they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
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Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.
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Against what should fire be opened? Against the obstacles which may delay the march of infantry. The first obstacle is the enemy gun. It will be the first objective assigned to artillery masses.
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'You're still the same girl. What people do doesn't change their nature.'She shook her head.… 'What they do is their nature,' she said.
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I've been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.
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Blame is a bitter and indigestible thing, even when the blame is a coat you cut for yourself, even when you stood right there and got yourself measured so you could wear it right.
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War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
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I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.
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I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.
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I don't think any of us are blameless when we all, more and more often, see ourselves not as members of a culture but as weapons in a war.
