Gene Sharp Quotes
As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.
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I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.
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I'm a political conservative.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
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I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.
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My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.
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I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
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Once you start to try and calculate why you were cast and why you weren't, you get in trouble.
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The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.
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When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
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We may think we are smarter than all other animals, but our destructive acts to nature and other animals do not validate this.
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God said, 'Let us make man in our image.' Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.'
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As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.
