Laura Dern Quotes
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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The E.U. can deliver on its citizens' needs and make its partnerships work only if we all act together - E.U. institutions and national governments, at all levels, united.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty hands have helped to bring them about.
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(Windows work two ways, mirrors one way.) You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.
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I actually spent a lot of time reading about how professional managers work. And how people build bridges.
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I read a lot of the 'Pern books' growing up - basically up through 'All the Weyrs of Pern,' maybe a couple after that. As far as formative dragon influences are concerned, she's probably one of the top ones; I know I read other fantasy novels that had them, but none particularly stick in mind.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
