Bonnie Greer Quotes
We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes.
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I don't consider this hard work. I love it, and I think I get to make a difference. I really believe in Secretary Clinton, and I want to feel like I'm part of making a difference; I really do.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.
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The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
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I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.
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I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.
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Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
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They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?
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Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.
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The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.
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I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
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It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.
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I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.
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A happy love needs to be reciprocated.
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So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
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One of our fundamental human needs is finding our partner that we hope we will stay with for the rest of our lives. You often find the same search in other genres. The mystery novel has a romance subplot. Literary novels often focus on that relationship but do not often end well.
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I think everybody would love to say they were in a movie. Whether or not I'm any good at it, I don't know.
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I know how to turn it on computer. I know where the disc goes: in that little slot but I can't always get it out. And I have three genius-level computer savvy kids who save my ass all the time. I'll tell you what I don't do. I don't watch the news on TV anymore. I get my news online. And like all of you, I Google whoever I want.
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Nature actually works through intense cooperation. There is competition in nature , but it thrives through cooperation. We don't teach this to our kids. It's actually a violent ideology. It's why kids go into school and bully each other and god forbid do things even worse. Cooperation will become the marching orders of the human species or we're not going to make it.
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The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.
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We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes.
