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'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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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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I understand that in some families both parents have to work, so the kids are home alone eating more processed foods. But if the kids know how to make oatmeal or eggs in the morning or pasta or a lentil soup at night - we're giving them real survival tools.
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What I do on stage has utterly no purpose.
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Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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My dad was a single father, and he was a hunter.
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What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
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I don't really troll the Internet; I'm not young enough.
