Iman Quotes
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I'm an actor, but I'm also a feminist, and a lot of times in movies there are things that I cannot imagine happening that are on the screen and totally accepted. And I just go, 'Whaaat?'
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I'm at my happiest when I'm on a movie set. It's like therapy for me.
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On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.
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Nothing would make me happier than to train the next winner on 'The Biggest Loser' because it means the world to me. Everybody has a fighter inside them, they just don't realize it.
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I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.
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I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
