Albert Bandura Quotes
Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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I feel like most creative people are total freaks.
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Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.
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IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
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The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.
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I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.
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To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.
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It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.
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I'm quite tame as touring musicians go.
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I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting.
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Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.
