Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes
"Family isn’t a matter of history. Or biology,” he said softly. “It’s a matter of choice.”
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
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I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
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I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.
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You are what you eat, and you make what you hear.
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Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college.
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I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
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You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
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I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.
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The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.
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I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
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I would try to be super-assertive in meetings and, you know, pound my hand off the table, and it never ended well. People would say, 'What are you beating the table for?' It's not natural for me.
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I'm not saying everybody has to walk around with a six-shooter, but they have to be prepared. You don't have to be militarized, but you have to be ready.
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I try to create characters people want to sit with, even if nothing is happening.
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It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is.
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In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.
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'All the doctors that have examined you state that you appear to have no friends or family relationships and you are incapable of any sort of empathy. In short…you’re perfect for this job.'
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We always want our leaders to be great leaders.
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"Family isn’t a matter of history. Or biology,” he said softly. “It’s a matter of choice.”
