Bob Stokes Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Hannah Arendt -
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
Illeana Douglas -
Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
Quintus Ennius -
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
Rachel Field
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
Uwe Boll -
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama -
We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
Malala Yousafzai -
I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
Zoe Saldana -
We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot -
While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
Nazanin Boniadi
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
Barry Humphries -
p. 97-98: As quoted in: S.P. Sector (1997). A Study of Issues Relating to the Patentability of Biotechnological Subject Matter. Footnote 51.
Jacob Bronowski -
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
Oliver Goldsmith -
India is for me a difficult country. It isn’t my home and cannot be my home; and yet I cannot reject it or be indifferent to it; I cannot travel only for the sights. I am at once too close and too far.
V. S. Naipaul -
In mura, in tetti, in pavimenti sparteEran le perle, eran le ricche gemme.
Ludovico Ariosto -
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu
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I want to win as many tournaments as I can.
Jason Day -
I've never been in the studio world; TV is as close as I get to the more corporate approach to making entertainment.
Brad Anderson -
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.'
Maya Angelou -
I'm not one of those people who sees documentaries as a stepping stone to doing fiction. I love documentaries and watch tons of documentaries. But, I like fiction films a lot, too.
Marshall Curry -
I lost a great uncle in World War II who was with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Jake Tapper -
The world is proof that God is a committee.
Bob Stokes