Amy Lee (Amy Lynn Hartzler) Quotes
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.
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I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.
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I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.
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I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.
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Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember - there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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I write what I write.
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Government is not show business.
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London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.
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When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.
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Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.
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I certainly had a lot of fun during my career playing tennis, doing the thing I wanted to do and to do it well.
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Happiness, like anger, is also a habit. You learn to be happy one day at a time. But habits change hard.
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You don’t have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented.
