Ricardo Semler Quotes
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.
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Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
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Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.
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Poet: 'Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic.' Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant. We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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Don't think about anything for too long. Even if it's off-the-wall, go for it. You'll have a lot more fun in life.
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I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.
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Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale in comparison.
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When I started making films, like almost every filmmaker, I think, you're just so excited to be able to make a movie that you'll do anything.
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What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?
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I have my family, which is my main thing; the organization; a modeling career. All these things are important, but family definitely comes first.
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As a young girl who was not confident in myself, I think I would tell girls of all ages that there is no one type of beauty, and looking towards one standard is the most unhealthy thing in the world.
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Youthfulness is not determined by age. It is determined by one's life force. One who possesses hope is forever young. One who continually advances is forever beautiful.
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At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis.
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You have to be very vocal about being willing to fight anyone.
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The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.
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If you are giving back, you took too much.
