Will Schwalbe Quotes
But it takes so little to help people, and people really do help each other, even people with very little themselves. And it’s not just about second chances. Most people deserve an endless number of chances.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
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I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
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People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.
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People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
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In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broadway, and they show the film all the time on cable over there, so people recognise you.
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When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
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I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself.
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The fight for equal rights or pay has become this thing where people expect actresses to talk about it. Why they feel that a man is worth more is an important issue to discuss - we are moving in the right direction, but we need to continue to talk about it and continue to label it as an issue.
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I've never felt any huge intrusions into my personal life.
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I've always shied away from 'Where are they now?' shows, because I've been lucky enough to keep working, and people know where I am.
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I started as a journalist for magazines in New York City, so it was always storytelling. And moving into movies was a natural transition.
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I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
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But it takes so little to help people, and people really do help each other, even people with very little themselves. And it’s not just about second chances. Most people deserve an endless number of chances.
