George Washington Carver Quotes
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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Netflix, I love you.
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Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
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I have a collection of vintage sundresses, and I've never worn them because for some reason I always opt for shorts and a t-shirt. I wish I could commit to them. I will. I have a few really great pieces I've been holding onto for years.
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When I held that statuette, I felt as if I had won a triumph not just for myself, but for every other woman who'd struggled to overcome the same sort of background.
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At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.
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I'm all for streaming, and I do think it's thrilling that a gazillion people can see our film the day it drops. On the other hand, I'm a fierce believer of the theatergoing experience. My hope would be that films can be enjoyed in both ways, that there's room for both.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'
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I don't know why, but it means a lot to get a compliment from a woman.
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In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.
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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
