Rebecca Mader Quotes
All I do is watch TV and films, and when I'm not doing that, I'm making them. I need a hobby!
Quotes to Explore
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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The fashion industry really welcomed me with open arms and open hearts. They've been very accepting of my faith. I have strict wardrobe requirements, and that's something they've upheld.
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
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My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.
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I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it; Never underestimate the heart of a champion.
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Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.
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I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
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The only person who can fix education is the student.
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The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.
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There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.
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I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw, for the first time in my life, a black stewardess walking through a plane and that was quite an inspiration for me.
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Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
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We simply argue that climate change consequences was one of the impacts, but interestingly enough, even though a major effort was made in 2008 to try and resurrect the problem over food, now the consequences of the civil war are making the situation even worse.
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I don't even watch my own show: I tape it, I'm out.
