Bette Davis Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
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A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential.
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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Our party may have swung too far right at various times.
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The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.
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I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.
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I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.
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I've always been interested in queerness and underground and fringe and periphery, and who and what flourishes in those spaces. Those spaces that are darker and dingier and more dangerous, more lonely. What comes out of there, to me, is the life force. I'm excited when the center reaches over to those places and pulls inspiration from them, and translates it for a lot of people.
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We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.
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To get people to switch from Google, you have to offer something twice as better. But the truth is, the world doesn't actually need better-quality search. I think we've got good enough search.
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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
