Anthony Daniels Quotes
Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
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Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
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I cannot wait to get up there and experience space travel for the first time. It will be a dream come true.
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He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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I like to spend my time with my children.
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Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.
