Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it's there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that's experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
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Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
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After I completed the project for BCG, I was offered the position of Director of Marketing for Ozon.ru.
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A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
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I get on well with models, and I like to treat them well.
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I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.
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I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.
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Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions.
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The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.
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The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.
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I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, 'Why am I doing free advertising for you?'
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A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.
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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
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You can hear songs that are technically great, songs that tick all the boxes. But for a song to be felt, you need something else.
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If you let pride stop you, you will hate life.
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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
