Beeban Kidron Quotes
People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
Nastassja Kinski -
I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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I know more about UFC than the wrestling circuit. I think everybody's a pretty good guy in the UFC.
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Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.
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Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill.
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People have a right to have their lives witnessed; if we coexist with the systems that abuse people, then we have a duty to understand.
