Amy Adams Quotes
I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage.Amy Adams
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
J. Paul Getty -
In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'
Eckhart Tolle -
Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
Imran Khan -
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
Ursula Burns -
No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.
Wang Shi
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I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.
Naomi Klein -
I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.
Gabrielle Union -
Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.
Nadia Giosia -
I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.
Nastia Liukin -
There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso
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Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.
Adam Cohen -
The year 1983 was crazy. People wanted to sell not only their investments... but also their companies.
Carlos Slim -
I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. Abrams -
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln -
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.
Karen Thompson Walker -
Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the opposite of white privilege is working to dismantle that privilege. But my particular hip-hop generation proved to be very serious about figuring it all out and staying engaged.
Adam Mansbach
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Such a stupid act. Sometimes heroics revolted him; they seemed like an insult to the soldier who weighed the risks of the situation and made calm, cunning decisions based on experience and imagination, the sort of unshowy soldiering that didn’t win medals but wars.
Iain Banks -
Hiding my migraines on the set may have been my toughest challenge as an actor. There were times when the pain from migraine headaches was so severe that I literally had to crawl across my dressing room floor. But I couldnt let anyone know. If they thought I might slow production, I figured that would end my career.
Morgan Fairchild -
I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.
Iain Duncan Smith -
Every now and then, I have a deep thought.
Joel Edgerton -
Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.
Lisa Unger -
I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage.
Amy Adams