Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
Gary Zukav
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
Kate Klise
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
Pat Summitt
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
Ed Belfour
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
Abbas Kiarostami
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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.
Damien Hirst
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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
Dana Spiotta
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The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
Federica Mogherini
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
Karen Gillan
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
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A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
Carl von Clausewitz
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
Ike Skelton
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Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.
Boy George
Culture Club
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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
Earl Warren
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.
John Wooden
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You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.
Anna Deavere Smith
