Uma Thurman Quotes
And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.
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I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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Fiction gives us the second chances that life denies us.
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I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they're competing on. If we're competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really intensely competing, it's likely that both of us will become better, but it's also quite possible we'll lose sight of what's truly valuable.
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I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.
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What Wall Street and credit card companies are doing is really not much different from what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives.
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I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.
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And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
