Uma Thurman Quotes
~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.
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A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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Businesses have to make gestures that go beyond words. Persuasion no longer works.
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~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~
