Zygmunt Bauman Quotes
Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.
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I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
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Kristen Stewart always looks good - she wears what she wants. It's the same with Alison Mosshart - she chooses clothes that she loves rather than what she thinks she should wear.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
