Frances McDormand Quotes
If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
Quotes to Explore
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I loved the world of imagination.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.
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Human nature is above all things lazy.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
