Frances Beinecke Quotes
I was in college when tens of thousands of people marched on Washington for the first Earth Day. Raw sewage floated in rivers and clouds of smog hung over cities. But then something amazing happened. People spoke out. Thousands of students, workers, and ordinary citizens used their voices to say, 'This has to change.'
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
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What if these events the Bible says will happen, happens in our lifetime?
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I was in college when tens of thousands of people marched on Washington for the first Earth Day. Raw sewage floated in rivers and clouds of smog hung over cities. But then something amazing happened. People spoke out. Thousands of students, workers, and ordinary citizens used their voices to say, 'This has to change.'
