Frances Beinecke Quotes
Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'
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I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.
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Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
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My degree in theology was an important part of my formation.
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Religion is somewhere between fear and sex. And God? Truly? In his own right, without our voices speaking for him? Obsessed I think, but not passionate. (p.74)
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Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.
