bell hooks Quotes
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
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At times, the curve/fat/plus convo tends be this 'out of the dark' story, like, 'I used to be insecure, but now here I am.' But that is not my reality, and for most of the people, that isn't their reality, either.
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
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I worked in Licorice Pizza when John Lennon was killed. I had the day off, but I came in anyway because people needed a place to mourn.
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The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.
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The biggest battles in human history can only ever be seen through the eyes of the bloke on the front line, and that's by definition a very focused view and one that will vary from individual to individual.
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Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
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The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
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As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.
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People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.
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I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans.
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No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.
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New York is hard for me. I grew up in Texas. I can't do without my car, and you can't have a car in New York.
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I think you need something to take care of in order to figure out who you are as a person, and in that way, being a dad has levelled me out more than anything. You've just got to be good for that person no matter what's going on in your head that day.
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The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
