Annette Bening Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
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When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.
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Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.
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Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
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In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
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My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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A healthy economy is largely a result of a reasonable balance between consumption today and consumption deferred, and it's pretty clear that balance has been ridiculously out of whack for a while.
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I don't try to lose weight. I don't try to do nothing. I just try to put in my work, feel better, the things that I can do in the field to be better are better, so that's what I do.
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The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.
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I love walking onto the set and the blindfold is taken off and then everything I do is fresh and in the moment. That's why I loved working with Darren Aronofsky.
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Sometimes words aren't needed.
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Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.
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If you sleep,you will miss the OPPORTUNITY to be successful.
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I feel very lucky I don't have to be a critic.
