Amy Bloom Quotes
My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true of me, too.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
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My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
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I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.
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Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
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Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
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Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
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I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
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When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
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I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.
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A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
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Balachander is my inspiration. He had a heart problem 40 years back. He has been making films for another 46 years. He can never grow old. My father used to be like that until he suffered a stroke. Then I suddenly realized he was an old man.That's also true of my brothers Chandra Haasan and to an extent Charu Haasan.I can never imagine them being old.
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The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true of me, too.
