E. M. Forster Quotes
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
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It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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I don't want to be held down by genres so much.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.
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I don't go to scary movies because they scare me. But I can be in them because I know whether I'm living or dying.
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Shooting guns is not something I would do in my spare time. I really don't understand why Americans can purchase guns so easily and why they use them for sporting purposes.
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When a photon comes down, it interacts with electrons throughout the glass, not just on the surface. The photon and electrons do some kind of dance, the net result of which is the same as if the photon hit only on the surface.
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The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
