Anna Leonowens Quotes
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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Badminton is not a popular sport in India.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
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I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
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I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
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I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.
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'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.
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Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.
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A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
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The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel.
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If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.
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A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be punished, but not by emulating the violent. This seems eminently more consistent with American ideals than continuing to share the killing stage with some of the world's worst human rights violators.
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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
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Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.
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There is compensation in all things.
