Beeban Kidron Quotes
I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
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It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
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The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.
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Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen.
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Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.
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I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values.
