Laura Dern Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.
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My music already has this oldish kind of quality to it, like you don't necessarily know what era it was recorded in, so it all kind of felt surreal and weird. Night after night when I played live, I was really trying to figure it out in real time, and I still don't know what effect I'm going for or what effect I actually achieve. Looking back, I feel like it would be arrogant of me not to appreciate the fact that I've been able to do whatever I want and still have an audience come see me.
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My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.
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When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.
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Employees are given the chance to help shape their company by participating in a company-wide communications program making suggestions on waste reduction, environmental improvement, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and safety issues.
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My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
