Laurence Fox Quotes
I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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Well, we're out of time here. Regardless of that, and what might be perceived as our disagreement on the substance of this, my great thanks for coming out and speaking to this under these circumstances.
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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
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It's always good to be underestimated.
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The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
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Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so much. When I don't feel good, I look in the mirror and think I look fat and miserable. But when I feel good and whole, I'm not worried about my body because I'm living in it. It doesn't become an object.
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I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.
