Mamie Gummer Quotes
L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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There have been presidents with business interests before. But there has never been a fully commercialized global brand as a sitting U.S. president. That is unprecedented.
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
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L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.
