Leslie Marmon Silko Quotes
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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.
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I'm just saying to everyone. The director does not direct the trailer. It's an edited version that takes so many moments of the movie, sometimes it's not even in the movie. The director does the movie. So don't judge the director based on the trailer. Please.
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I'm a woman with a mission. I've learned to believe in myself, my vision and to do things the way I want them done.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.
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Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.
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Things which don't shift and grow are dead things.
