Holly Hunter Quotes
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
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When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
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I want to see more sports in schools.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'
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Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
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A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
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My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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I have sinned against you, my Lord.
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For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.
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When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.
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'They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.'
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He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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I think some parents think, 'Oh, having kids is so beautiful; I want others to feel the joy I do.'
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The responsibility to seek learning by faith rests upon each of us individually, and this obligation will become increasingly important as the world in which we live grows more confused and troubled.
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I am a huge fan of Cronenberg, all his movies.
