Oona Chaplin Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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The nature of human beings is that we're competitive, and the chances are there's someone out there who's going to work harder than you and want it more than you.
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We loved everything. We wanted to be able to do anything.
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Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body.
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Einstein wrestled with a problem back before we even knew the universe was expanding, and he was looking for a way to keep the universe from collapsing. And so he discovered, in his theory of gravity, something like this dark energy - he called it a cosmological constant - could play this role, pushing things away.
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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
