Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.
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I feel my life has more meaning because I am responsible for another life, although I don't have control over what Lucian - my son - is going to do. He's definitely going to carve his own way.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.
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We're at that kind of moment where we really have to understand that everyone is totally connected and everyone is important.
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Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.
