Annette Bening Quotes
I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.
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The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.
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Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.
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Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.
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Went to the paper shop - it had blown away.
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I'm lucky: almost all my family has lived to be very old. I have one grandfather who lived to be 100.
