Zooey Deschanel Quotes
Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.
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If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
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Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.
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More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.
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Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
