Daniel Beaty Quotes
We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.
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Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.
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My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.
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One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.
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I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.
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People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
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We are responsible for one another. Collectively so. The world is a joint effort. We might say it is like a giant puzzle, and each one of us is a very important and unique part of it. Collectively, we can unite and bring about a powerful change in the world. By working to raise our awareness to the highest possible level of spiritual understanding, we can begin to heal ourselves, then each other and the world.
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We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.
