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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If anybody is interested in listening to good modern music, I would recommend Jim Fassett, 'Symphony of the Birds.' It's really beautiful... with real birds.
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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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After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I’ve decided that I’d like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today. If you’re wondering why … you haven’t been paying attention.
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Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief. I regard the present conservation movement as the embryo of such an affirmation.
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.
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It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind.
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From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to be instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the Living Water which Jesus Christ will give us and which alone can satisfy our souls.
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We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
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I am a huge fan of Cronenberg, all his movies.
