Eleanor Coppola Quotes
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
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I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.
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I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction. I've done so many albums where I've been in the studio for 14 hours a day for six months just trying to come up with things on my own. It's a nice change helping other people with their music and not being all about what I'm trying to do myself.
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Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
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Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
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I speak my mind. I just speak my heart. I will not turn away from any question.
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I think that I can improv.
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At the structural level, when the primary is all that matters, the incentives change for politicians. And, when you can earn media coverage with bombast and vitriol, that creates another incentive for politicians to light things on fire.
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No actor forgets the times he couldn't get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don't want that momentum to stop when you get it.
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At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.
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When you stop looking for something, you see it right in front of you.
