Besse Cooper Quotes
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.
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As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.
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'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.
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My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
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I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?
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Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
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Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary.
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I grew up being absolutely in love with Tom Hanks. I remember, all the kids had Brad Pitt plastered all over their textbooks, and then I had Tom Hanks plastered over mine.
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You can't be a conqueror in your own home.
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
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Let's keep this simple: We separate religion and government in this country. That means the state has no business setting aside special days for prayer or other religious observances. Thomas Jefferson knew that. He refused to issue prayer proclamations during his presidency. James Madison issued a few under pressure from Congress but later in his life wrote an essay saying he wished he hadn't. Andrew Jackson followed Jefferson's lead and refused to issue such proclamations entirely.
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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I mind my own business. And I don't eat junk food.
