Annette Bening Quotes
I feel really lucky that I'm able to pursue the work that I love. I want my children to see that. I want them to have that for themselves, something that they love, that they do, that they pursue in their lives as a way of growing and learning.
Quotes to Explore
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.
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It's nice to get to work with a clear mind...
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Someone once told me that children are like heroin. You always want more. Yet first-borns are special because you'll never have your first child again.
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My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.
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New York used to be so much more than just a place to shop. It was life on the street for the eccentrics; it was an eccentric city. It had many different tastes. Now it's just one - a really rich one - with big tall glass buildings.
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I feel really lucky that I'm able to pursue the work that I love. I want my children to see that. I want them to have that for themselves, something that they love, that they do, that they pursue in their lives as a way of growing and learning.
