Apostolos Doxiadis Quotes
We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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I will count to 10 before tweeting.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.
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Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
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I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Reds. I would say I go Cubs usually. That's sort of where I grew up. My older brother was a huge Reds fan.
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Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
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So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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Police departments across the nation must develop nonviolent 'rules of engagement,' so that they don't reflexively respond to suspected crimes with violence. This will require more in-depth training in the behavioral psychology of conflict resolution so police have tried-and-true techniques of preventing and de-escalating violence.
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I love hip hop. It's such an appendage for me. It's something that's always shaped my experience out in the world.
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All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the 'fifties' or 'sixties,' as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.
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I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.
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We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.
