Amy Heckerling Quotes
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
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Florence is charming, cozy, beautiful, inspiring - it has so many great places to go to and so many unique things to see that you won't find anywhere else!
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.
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What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.
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When songs make me wanna throw up, it makes me ashamed to even be in the same genre as those songs.
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Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
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As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion.
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He was a revealing symbol. He called himself passive-aggressive. There was self-pity, whining. There was a diminishment, a diminution. He was sitting there in his sweater, hunched over his guitar, looking like a little lost boy. Compare that with the great figures of my generation: Jimi Hendrix. Pete Townshend. Keith Richards.
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'What remains?' cried Ivanhoe; 'Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name.'
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I got into rock music at thirteen, listening to Van Halen, learned how to play the electric guitar.
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I always give importance to scripts first, and remuneration is something that comes later.
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I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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Let us cultivate love and compassion, both of which give life true meaning. This is the religion I preach. It is simple. Its temple is the heart. Its teaching is love and compassion. Its moral values are loving and respecting others, whoever they may be. Whether one is a lay person or a monastic, we have no other option if we wish to survive in this world.
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NYU was my comfort zone.
