Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.
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My parents tried so hard to do what they could to keep us in school, but school didn't last but four months out of the year and most of the time we didn't have clothes to wear.
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When I was a footballer, I surrounded myself with footballers. We were all friends. But in Brasilia you don't know who your friends are. It can be a dangerous place.
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And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.
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I don't think being a star has ever been part of the plan. But I always want to do really good work, even when I made career moves with projects that made more sense in sort of a career way than in an artistic way... like I did with 'The Darkest Hour.'
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I wouldn't want to be Superman. Batman would be cool. But the one I've always wanted to play is the Joker. There is a maniacal and dangerous side to me.
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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
