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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The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.
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People throw insults at you, and sometimes they hit a nerve - and it's about not showing that, because they will pick on that. Don't feed the trolls!
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We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.
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Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?
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There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.
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We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes.
