Gerda Lerner Quotes
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.
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Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.
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For my characters, it's important to get really specific about what they listen to. Because it affects how they move in the world.
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It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
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You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.
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Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.
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The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.
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I've always wanted to have kids. I do think I would be a great mom.
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The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
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So much of the access that I was able to gain with the Autodefensas was over months, not days.
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When you're just an actor, you do your role, and then you're in your trailer. It's not as hands on as when you're directing. You live and breathe it.
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Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
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We must make it clear that our problem is not in Mecca but in Brussels.
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We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
