Allison Jones Quotes
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
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Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.
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The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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I guess I just feel bad that I'm still going on bad dates when I should really be in a bad marriage by now.
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One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
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At school, film-making had been the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me. Then I get to L.A., and it's this whole other thing. I checked out.
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It wasn't conscious, but I'm glad I've had a slow and steady career path. I wanted to develop my style, and I wanted to be the one making the decisions. Sometimes, when you become a success quickly, those decisions are out of your control.
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We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.
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I'm a total goof. When I'm being really comfortable with my friends, I can be very goofy.
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I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.
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Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.
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I don't really troll the Internet; I'm not young enough.
