Amy J. Berg Quotes
The people of Shishmaref want their community to survive, but they are holding on to their legacy by a very delicate thread indeed. The threat of their land disappearing is only the beginning.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
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Power tends to get confused with repression.
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I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
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The people of Shishmaref want their community to survive, but they are holding on to their legacy by a very delicate thread indeed. The threat of their land disappearing is only the beginning.
