bell hooks Quotes
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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I'm an emotional person.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
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When people show you who they are ... believe them!
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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A story is ultimately a memory. It's important when you're telling a story to think about why this memory is a memory. You don't remember everything in life; you just remember certain things - so, why this one?
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These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
