Isaac Barrow Quotes
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High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
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I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.
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When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.
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To innovate is not to reform.
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Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic doubt from absolutely everyone in my crew, my producer, everyone. It's not just the film industry - it's a worldwide thing. It's the culture of the world to doubt women.
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Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die everyday in childbirth . . . Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.
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A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
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Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.
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Speeches are much easier if you read them. I just find when I do that, it's harder to fire up the crowd.
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I was raised in a Christian household and went to a Christian high school, so I believe in creationism, for sure.
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Poetry is composing for the breath.
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The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.
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When actors have the opportunity to play a larger-than-life icon - my wife did it with Tina Turner, and Jamie Foxx did it with Ray Charles - you have to make a decision how you go in. What do you start with? Where do you begin?
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I like to learn through doing. Let me make a mistake, and then critique me on what I did so that I learn that way.
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I have a road bike and a mountain bike, and I tend to use them both a lot. They help you keep your balance and your stamina.
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An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.
