Camila Alves Quotes
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.
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I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.
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I don't like exercising; I'll be honest with you.
