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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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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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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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 would like to enlighten people.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.
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Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
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You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.
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I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.
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I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.
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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.
