Uma Thurman Quotes
It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.
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It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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I feel a duty to write because I can write songs.
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All of my friends in the business ask, 'Why is this woman not a star? Why is she not a household name?'
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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Most teachers, when surveyed, say that it is part of their job to help students develop things like grit. This is especially true at the elementary and middle school levels. They feel it's part of their vocation to teach other things that are not formally academic content.
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It was brief, swift, and then it was done. It was a professional job. I needed to be kissed, and I was kissed.
